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The New School for Social Research (NSSR) is a graduate institution in the heart of New York City. It generates progressive scholarship and historically grounded education in the social sciences and philosophy. With more than 75 full-time faculty members , its ten departments and programs offer masters and doctoral degrees to 800 graduate students from 70 countries. Interdisciplinary centers and institutes housed at The New School for Social Research provide further opportunities for deep inquiry and innovative collaborations, particularly at the intersection of social theory, policy, and design.

The New School for Social Research believes that research and pedagogy should advance economic justice, promote an understanding of change, and train the next generation to influence public debate.  Its commitment to progressive values, academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School lies at the heart of The New School's history and draws upon the vital legacy of the University in Exile.

While maintaining long-standing strengths in continental philosophy, psychology, political economy, ethnography, historical studies, and the analysis of social movements, The New School for Social Research continues to innovate in fields like migration and mobility, capitalism studies,gender and sexuality studies, creative publishing and critical journalism, and design and social thought, demonstrating its desire to remain engaged in the most important issues and debates of our time.

The New School was founded in 1919 by a group of progressive intellectuals looking for a new, more relevant model of education. Our history and guiding principles-inspired by progressive American thought, European critical theory and the legacy of the University in Exile-remain as critical today than ever before.

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Welcome to The New School for Social Research, where you come not just to study but to absorb a world and an ethos of challenging academic orthodoxy and asking big questions about society.

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The New School is a private institution that was founded in 1919. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,907 (fall 2023), and the setting is urban. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. The New School's ranking in the 2025 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #204. Its tuition and fees are $58,670.

Located in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village, The New School has 45 undergraduate majors and nearly 60 minors across five schools and colleges. The New School comprises the Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School for Social Research, College of Performing Arts and the Schools of Public Engagement.

Students can choose from many Bachelor of Fine Arts programs through Parsons including fashion design, illustration, photography, interior design, design and technology, and integrated design. Outside of the fine art world, The New School caters to many areas of study with majors in environmental studies, psychology, media studies, interdisciplinary science, urban studies, anthropology and economics. The New School has a global campus in Paris and offers study abroad exchange programs in 10 countries, with the option to enroll in outside programs through other schools, as well.

About 30% of students are international and represent almost 100 countries. Students are not required to live on campus and a majority of students live off campus. The New School has club and intramural sports, fitness classes, and more than 40 student organizations. Notable alumni include former president and creative director of J.Crew, Jenna Lyons, and Grammy Award-winning actor Bradley Cooper.

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The New School for Social Research Receives Nearly $1 Million Gift to Advance the Study of Economics

Since 2017, 15 PhD students in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) have been named Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy Fellows. A $1 million gift from an anonymous donor helped establish the fellowships, which provide recipients with three years of full funding. Now, the same donor has committed another nearly $1 million for the continuation of the fellowships.

“The renewal of the Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy Fellowship program provides another four years of direct support to doctoral students studying heterodox economics at the highest level.  It means that multiple years of new doctoral students will be able to focus on research without incurring debilitating debt. The fellowship is a tribute to our distinctive approach to economics at NSSR. And it serves as a model for fellowship funding that we hope to replicate in our other programs,” says Will Milberg, an economics professor and dean of NSSR.

The fellowships are awarded to outstanding incoming students in NSSR’s PhD Economics program, well known for its heterodox approaches to economic theory and history, and the history of economic thought. To date, the fellowships has supported 15 students on the cutting edge of the field, including Armando Alvarez, José Pedro Bastos Neves, Elena Blanc, Joao Paulo Braga, Cesar Castillo Garcia, Emanuele Citera, Jacobo Ferrer Hernandez, Ettore Gallo, Qing Han, Tato Khundadze, Andreas Lichtenberger, Kalpa Rajapakshage, Amit Roy, Frutuoso Santana, and Clara Zanon Brenck.

“The Magdoff and Sweezy Fellowships have been—and will continue to be—essential to our pursuit of the best students,” says Mark Setterfield, professor and the chair of Economics. “A gift of this size has a transformative impact on our ability to educate the next generation of progressive economists.”

Naming the fellowships for Magdoff and Sweezy is particularly appropriate for The New School, given its long-standing strength in classical and post-Keynesian economic theory. Sweezy, dubbed the “dean of radical economists” by the Wall Street Journal , taught Marxian economics at NSSR in the mid-1970s and co-founded the journal Monthly Review ,  the longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States. He also wrote The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy (1946) and, with Paul Baran, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (1966). Magdoff wrote The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy (1969). Along with editing Monthly Review, Magdoff and Sweezy co-wrote six books, including Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (1987), one of the earliest treatments of the problem of financialization, which continues to plague the U.S. economy.

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