Plan of Study, Graduate

Instructions for completing the Plan of Study

  1. This form is intended for students who are planning to register for courses or credits during the upcoming semester. It is designed to help you and your adviser define your educational goals and to identify strategies for accomplishing them.
  2. Schedule a meeting with your primary adviser before completing this form, and well in advance of your registration appointment time. Depending on your adviser’s availability it may take a minimum of one to three business days (Monday-Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm Eastern time) for your adviser to approve your Plan of Study. After your adviser approves the Plan of Study, Gallatin’s Office of Student Services will lift the adviser registration block on Albert. 
  3. Before completing this form, please consult the M.A. Degree Requirements. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of their remaining degree requirements and to plan accordingly.  Please consult your Degree Progress Report on Albert and speak with your adviser about appropriate course selections that will fulfill these requirements. If you have not yet been assigned a primary adviser, please contact your interim adviser.
  4. To identify the courses you want to take this semester, please consult the Gallatin Graduate Course Offerings, Graduate Electives at Other NYU Schools and the course search function in Albert. If you are an incoming student, you may not have access to Albert yet, and you can use the public NYU Course Search to find registration information on the classes you plan to take; you can filter for graduate-level courses by selecting the Academic Career filter and choosing “Graduate” in the drop-down menu (Graduate students will not receive credit toward the MA degree for undergraduate-level courses.).
  5. If you need more information on registration, please consult the Graduate Registration instructions.
  6. Once you submit this form, look for a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact the Gallatin Office of Student Services (studentservices.gallatin@nyu.edu) to make sure your Plan of Study was received.

 

 

Questions

Continuing students should answer all four questions below; entering students should answer the first two.

What short- and long-term goals (educational, professional, personal) do you hope to accomplish through the Gallatin program?
What is your area of concentration? In what schools, departments, and programs are you taking courses? What independent studies, internships, and extracurricular activities have you done or do you plan to do?
What have you done over the past semester to help realize the goals described above? In what ways have your interests, goals, and plans changed since you wrote the plan of study last semester? What difficulties are you encountering? When do you expect to complete the degree?
What courses, independent studies, and other work have you done to prepare for the thesis? What type of thesis do you plan to write (research, project, or creative)? If you are prepared to do so at this time, discuss your thesis topic.
(including transfer units and course equivalency)
(You must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.00 to remain in good academic standing; a final minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 is required for graduation.)
(You are required to complete a minimum of 14 units in classroom courses. This does not include the Graduate Core or individualized projects such as Independent Study, Tutorial, Internship, or Private Lessons.)

Graduate Core

You are required to take the following Gallatin Core Requirement courses, totaling 14 units. Check box if fulfilled.

Please answer all of the questions below

The questions that follow all refer to the “Semester of Registration” that you indicated at the start of this form.

I have reviewed my remaining degree requirements on my Degree Progress Report on Albert, and I acknowledge that my graduation will be delayed if I do not complete all of the Gallatin degree requirements.
Are you planning to register for an individualized project (independent studies, tutorials, internships and private lessons)?
Are you planning to register for courses at the Stern School of Business?
Are you planning to register for an undergraduate-level course or a non-credit course at the School of Professional Studies (SPS) course?
Are you planning to register for Master’s Thesis I or Master’s Thesis II or Thesis Advisement?
Are you planning to exceed the 40-unit requirement for the MA degree?
Do you plan to apply for full-time or half-time equivalency this semester?
Are you planning to defend the thesis this semester?

Course Selections

Are you planning to register for at least one in-person NYU course this semester?

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