Advising

The Gallatin School places a great deal of importance on providing superior, personalized advising to students. The degree of self-direction and autonomy Gallatin offers can often be challenging as well as liberating. For this reason, Gallatin's layered advising system ensures that students make meaningful connections to address their diverse and complex needs.

Primary Faculty Adviser

At the core of Gallatin's advising system is the primary faculty adviser. Each student is assigned to work with a specific adviser on developing interests, constructing a program of study and growing in personal, intellectual, and professional ways. Together they design an individualized program intended to fulfill the student's academic goals. Students meet with their advisers throughout each term to discuss courses, their degree progress and registration for the coming term. Gallatin faculty are among the professors who serve as primary faculty advisers.

Class Adviser

Gallatin's Office of Academic Advising includes a staff of five Class Advisers, each of whom works with a specific cohort of students (First-Year, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Transfer). The Class Adviser system manages to give individual students the support they need and to offer group programs on shared issues. Because Class Advisers are faculty-qualified scholars who teach at Gallatin, each brings specialized academic expertise, including knowledge of other schools and colleges of the University, advice on graduate and professional schools and advice on scholarship applications.

Students are welcome to visit the Office of Academic Advising on the 5th floor from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Class Advisers hold extensive office hours and make every attempt to be available to students on a walk-in basis. To meet with a specific adviser, students are encouraged to e-mail or call the adviser directly to schedule an appointment. For general inquires, please call (212) 998-7320 or e-mail advising.gallatin@nyu.edu.

Gallatin Peer Support

The final component of the Advising system involves the Gallatin students themselves. Each year, undergraduate students are offered an opportunity to serve as peer mentors. If you would like to participate in the program, please e-mail Jeanette Tran.

Every new transfer student is offered the opportunity to request a peer mentor to rely on for support in what is frequently a challenging first semester experience.  GPS mentors are continuing Gallatin students who are ready and willing to answer questions about living in NYC, classes at NYU, navigating Gallatin and how to get involved in student life.