How You’ll Learn

Embrace the Challenge. Gain Experience. Ensure Success.

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Rigorous Programs Built Around You

Our academic programs demand excellence, immerse you in current trends, let you demonstrate real-world skills, and empower you to rise to the challenge.
Learning Guided by Expert Faculty

Our degree and continuing education classes are built around critical thinking, active learning, and self-discovery, with an emphasis on innovation, inclusivity, and collaboration. Led by experts in their respective fields, academic programs at NYU SPS rapidly evolve and incorporate the latest trends affecting industries today. By completing our programs, you’re gaining the skills valued by today’s employers across all sectors.

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Comprehensive Academic Advising

Walk away ready to succeed. To make that happen, we surround degree students with an environment of support, including personal advisors, one-on-one tutoring, enhancement workshops, library services, and more, with in-person and virtual options. You’ll be able to get the most out of your experience and tackle any concerns or challenges with resources like the SPS peer tutoring program and the NYU Writing and Learning Centers.

Online, Onsite, and Hybrid Study Options

Every student has unique needs. That’s why many of our programs are built to enable you to pursue your studies in the way that suits you best—while maintaining the academic rigor and skill building you need to thrive in your career. Complete your degree online or onsite, or choose a hybrid mix of classes. Degree students have access to virtual support, like tutoring, career support, and remote experiential learning opportunities.

Hands-on Learning Builds Experience

Learn by doing. At NYU SPS, we connect you with opportunities to expand your perspective and gain greater insight by applying your skills directly to real-world problems and issues. In our programs, everyone builds a portfolio of work relevant to their careers, so you can bridge classroom learning with real-world implementation and differentiate yourself on the job market.
Global Experiences

Choosing from a diverse array of destinations including Nairobi, Mumbai, Seoul, Tokyo, São Paulo, London, Paris, Prague, and Tulsa, students are provided opportunities to broaden their perspectives through a range of immersive global experiences like our full-semester study abroad and short-term Global Field Intensives.

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Real World Consulting Projects

We believe in putting skills to the test where it matters most—the real world. Through our acclaimed Real World courses, students apply to join teams sponsored by organizations like Nike, Instagram, Citi, and ESPN. They work to solve real and emerging challenges for jobs and entire industries that don’t yet exist. Programs are interdisciplinary across degrees, serve undergraduates and graduate students, and are fully credit bearing.

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Consulting Practicums

Many degree programs offer credit-bearing courses where teams of students work with an industry partner like a UN Committee, MasterCard, or a city agency to tackle a current issue or challenge. Faculty sponsors support the team as they engage with the partner organization, build research, analytic, teamwork and communication skills, and prove their career readiness.

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Experience Emerging Technology

SPS is committed to ensuring that students in every degree and program can immerse themselves in the implications of AI and other technology and bring these experiences into their future workplaces. Through the SPS Emerging Tech Collaborative we bring faculty, policy-makers, industry leaders, and students together to explore, experiment, and embrace the latest technological trends.

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Internships

We assist students taking their first steps toward their chosen fields. Students can work on-site, putting their knowledge and skills into practice while exploring career options and gaining valuable experience to differentiate themselves on their career journeys. Internships can be completed for credit or for pay and are available to students across degrees and programs.

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Capstone Projects

Capstone projects are required for most undergraduate and graduate degrees and ensure that you leave SPS with a portfolio of work to demonstrate skills that differentiate you in the job market. Your department will help you arrange an individual or group research or consulting project with an organization. To learn more about capstone requirements for degrees, see the curriculum section of degree programs you are interested in.

Companies Offering Internships

Here is a selection of companies that have hosted SPS students for internships. 

  • Brookfield

  • Tishman

  • Playbook Sports

  • SeventySix Capital Sports Advisory

  • Marriott

  • Walt Disney World Corporation

  • Edelman

  • NU Media

  • Hugo Boss