The New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science is one of 14 divisions within New York University (NYU) and was founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell MacCracken, establishing NYU as the second academic institution in the United States to grant Ph.D. degrees on academic performance and examination. The School is housed in the Silver Center, several departments have their own buildings and houses around Washington Square. The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, although run independently, is formally associated with the graduate school.
The School maintains several international houses to foster the study of international culture and languages, including:

Deutsches Haus
La Maison Francaise
Glucksman Irish House,
Casa Italiana,
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Hagop Kevorkian Center Academics
There are approximately 1,100 Ph.D. students and 1,800 master's students enrolled in the Graduate School. Students hail from more than 200 undergraduate institutions, all fifty states, and from more than 100 other countries. GSAS has one of the largest and most diverse international student populations in the United States. International students represent between 40% and 45% of the student body. GSAS offers 48 programs and many interdisciplinary and advanced degrees, including doctorates, master's, and certificates.
The following Departments and Programs are offered:

Africana Studies
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Anthropology
Basic Medical Sciences
Biology
Biomaterials Science
Biomedical Sciences
Chemistry
Cinema Studies
Classics
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Creative Writing
East Asian Studies
Economics
English
Environmental Health Sciences
Ergonomics and Biomechanics
European Studies
Fine Arts
French
French Studies
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Hebrew and Judaic Studies
History
Humanities and Social Thought
Irish and Irish American Studies
Italian Language
Journalism
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Law and Society
Linguistics
Mathematics
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Museum Studies
Music
Near Eastern Studies
Neural Science
Performance Studies
Philosophy
Physics
Poetics and Theory
Politics
Psychology
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Postdoctoral Program
Religious Studies
Russian and Slavic Studies
Sociology
Spanish and Portuguese