• NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Our 40-credit M.A. program helps you develop sophisticated skills to work in a variety of education and policy settings including research, evaluation, and policy organizations; government agencies; and youth and community service organizations.

Our Curriculum

Sociology of education examines the role of education in society, and specifically how politics, economics, culture, and other social forces create variation in schools as organizations. On a more micro-level, the field also explores how variation in school practices leads to differences in student outcomes.

• Explore these issues through core courses in sociological research methods and theory as well as the sociology of education.
• Develop analytical skills through electives in empirical research methods, such as statistics, interviewing methods, survey design, or ethnographic approaches.
• Focus your studies through a concentration in Social and Cultural Studies of Education or Education Policy. Within each concentration, you'll tailor your course selection and thesis research to your chosen topics of interest.
• In Social and Cultural Studies of Education, you might focus on racial or gender/sexual identity and politics in education, the role of media and new technologies in schools, or the relationship between schools and other social systems such as the family or the nation-state.
• In Education Policy, you'll take additional courses in economics, education policy, and advanced statistics to prepare for careers in education policy formation and evaluation.
• Undertake and complete a research thesis - the central component of our program. Through a two-semester intensive seminar, you'll work with an advisor to design and carry out year-long, original research, developing mastery along the way in particular modes of inquiry as well as a specific substantive area.

Financial Aid and Application Deadlines

Steinhardt offers many forms of financial aid for full- and part-time graduate study. Applications are due by November 1 for Spring admission and February 1 for Fall admission.

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