I have toured and done research on NYU and I know that it is the right school for me. The problem is that I do not know which school to apply to. I am interested in entrepreneurship, real estate, and architecture. I can’t really find any specific information on any of these areas of study that would relate to one school.
The NYU real estate school is the Shack Institute
I am not sure there is a specific school within NYU for architecture
For entrepreneurship, you could apply to the Leonard N. Stern School of Business
NYU normally runs about 60K+ a year without financial aid btw
NYU is over $70K these days.
Can you afford NYU?
Well, that’s the thing about going to a university like NYU: you have to be a little bit surer about your major going in, because you do have to apply to a specific school. In order to change your major to one not offered by your school, you’d have to transfer, and I’m not sure how easy that is.
NYU CAS does have a “professional edge” certificate program in real estate, architecture, construction, and engineering (http://cas.nyu.edu/object/ug.about.professionaledge.realestate), but there’s not a lot of information about it because NYU is revamping that certificate program. NYU doesn’t have an architecture program, but they do have a major in urban design and architecture studies in their art history department (which I think is the scholarly study of architecture and not studying how to BE an architect). The Tandon School of Engineering has a major in construction management.
A potential option is to create your own major blending these things at the Gallatin School, but you’d have to have a really good idea of what you want to do ahead of time.
@newjerseygirl98 I am not really sure but my parents told me that if it is the school I want to go to then they will figure out a way to pay for it.
@julliet Yeah my problem is that I am not 100% sure what I want to study yet besides entrepreneurship. But I cannot really find anything specific on NYU’s entrepreneurship programs. I am interested in real estate and architecture but not enough where I know that definitely want to major in one or both.
@babyduck Well, NYU is 60-70K+ a year. I’m not sure “figuring it out” is a good idea. Would you get scholarships/aid?
@newjerseygirl98 Yes I am applying for financial aid. But my parents both have jobs that pay over 100k each, so by “figuring it out” they meant that they would cut back spending on things we don’t really need.
Look into Liberal Studies or Gallatin. LS gives you the opportunity to explore what program/school would be the best for you while getting gen. eds. out of the way, and Gallatin allows you to combine different majors and programs to create your own individual path.
Apply as a civil engineer to Tandon which also has tremendous entrepreneurship opportunities. Entrepreneurship can’t be taught but Engineering can. You have to teach yourself the ways of entrepreneurship and Tandon and Stern are the two main schools that focus heavily on entrepreneurship. I’m saying this because the eLab and the incubators are occupied almost entirely either by Tandonites or Sternies.
@seeniebeenie Are there any limits on the courses a student at Gallatin can take? Would I only be allowed to take a certain amount of classes within each school of NYU?
@intlnyu Is Tandon on the same level with the rest of NYU? I have always heard it’s not as good as a school as the other parts of NYU.
Tandon is a school of nyu. nyu bought it in 2014. what you heard was about an affliated institution and not a school oof nyu…
@BabyDuck Your first year in Gallatin would be focused on taking the Gallatin core requirements, but as far as I know there is no limit on the courses a Gallatin student can take. The Gallatin Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_of_Individualized_Study) gives an overview as to how the program would go, and the Gallatin website (http://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics.html) is a great resource.