NYU Wagner

"Public service is the highest good, and, when done honorably and well, the most rewarding."

Robert F. Wagner, Mayor Of New York City 1953-1965

Students arrive at NYU Wagner with the desire to serve the public. They leave with the skills and experience to bring about change. Combining coursework in management, finance, and policy with cutting-edge research and work experience in urban communities, the NYU Wagner education will enable you to transform your personal commitment into public leadership.

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Our vision identifies public service as work of public importance wherever it happens. It recognizes that limited approaches are increasingly ineffective in a world that is as fast-changing, globally interrelated and complex as ours has become. read more...

Gallery Space at the Puck Building

Fall/Winter 2009 Exhibition: not ungrateful, just planning ahead


Dates: November 18, 2009 through January 21, 2010

Artist(s): Karla Carballar & Priyanka Dasgupta

Curator(s): Ann Chwatsky & Frankie Crescioni-Santoni

Diversity at Wagner

Diversity at Wagner

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Education at Wagner
Established in 1938, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service offers advanced programs leading to the professional degrees of:
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I’m currently finishing a book on what the RAND Corporation knows about managing high-performing organizations...

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Paul Light
Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service

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