The General Studies Program is a two-year, full-time program that allows students to complete an Associate in Arts degree, which forms the first half of a conventional bachelor’s degree program at NYU. The General Studies Program is based on a broadly defined interdisciplinary core curriculum that offers the kind of comprehensive liberal arts background usually required during the first two years of college. But we depart from the typical pattern. We think that an education should be carefully designed. The General Studies Program has a unified curriculum, where one course relates to another, where all aspects of a curriculum focus on a common goal, and where both students and faculty are committed to the development of a community dedicated to learning.

Students may not apply to the General Studies Program. Instead, the NYU admissions committee selects highly-qualified students to refer to GSP -- students they believe are worthy of admission to the University and who will benefit from the experience. In recent years only 7% of applicants to NYU were admitted to GSP.

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