I understand that advising is very important to the Gallatin student. How are advisors selected?
We assign all freshmen a Gallatin professor so that the student can become accustomed to Gallatin’s approach to interdisciplinary learning. At the end of the freshman year, we ask students to describe their academic interests and they may then be reassigned to a faculty advisor who shares those specific interests. That advisor may be a Gallatin professor or a professor in another NYU department. For example, if a student is interested in business and politics, the advisor might be a professor in the Stern School of Business; if a student is interested in art history and language, the advisor might be a faculty member in the art history department; if the student’s interests are pre-med and liberal arts, the student would work with a pre-med advisor.
