New York University Review

My daughter started a graduate program five years ago at New York University. She was given subsidized housing her first year through a grant. She still had to pay $800 a month rent. The program I am referring to is the Ph.D. program in Sociology. Like many programs she was given free tuition in exchange for being a Teacher's Assistant and/or Researcher. After four years she has finished her course work. Some Graduate Programs have three years of course work. In essence NYU's is a longer haul.

NYU is ranked in the top 25 for Graduate Programs in Sociology. Its contender was Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

She got a much warmer welcome at Emory when she went to interview there. NYU was not warm and fuzzy and has not been. The program is very small- 7 students so making friends was difficult.

With a Ph.D. from NYU she will be able to teach at a respectable college but not at Harvard or Yale.

There is some great faculty in some areas. Those areas are Urban, Gender and Family, and certain types of quantitative Sociology.

In general it has been a good experience. She has a great advisor though initially there was a definite lack of support.