Graduate Program

The department is committed to comparative research that seeks theories that allow for the enormous diversity in human life. The program offers a holistic approach to the study of humans and exposes students to the traditional subdisciplines of anthropology while ensuring that they also receive intensive training in particular problems within one subfield.

Anthropology Funding Information

Human Skeletal Biology MA
Some tuition funding is competitively available to first-year students. Funding is available from the NYU Graduate School for conference travel.

PhD—all subfields
All students admitted to the PhD program receive multi-year funding packages (MacCracken Fellowships) from the NYU Graduate School, contingent upon satisfactory progress toward the degree.  These fellowships cover the full cost of tuition, as well as a living allowance for four or five years. Most PhD students also secure external research funds to support their dissertation research project. The Graduate School offers some competitive funding to PhD students to cover conference travel, pre-dissertation exploratory research, and dissertation write-up.