2020 Class Profile

Academics

  • Graduates completed 39 second majors and 114 academic minors, receiving multiple university honors, and departmental honors (thesis prizes in other departments pending)
  • 54 honorees for the NYU Founders' Day Award, named as University Honors Scholars
  • 1 recipient of the Mitchell Scholarship, the first NYU student selected in our history
  • 1 recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship (and 3 additional finalists)
  • 1 recipient of the Marc & Ruti Bell Public Service Scholarship
  • 1 recipient of the Ranier International Scholars Fund Travel Grant
  • 1 Émigré Memorial German Internship Program participant (through the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)
  • 1 Taiwan-US Sister Alliance Global Ambassador Scholarship recipient
  • 1 AASAP/UK Lord Acton Memorial Scholarship

Service & Leadership

  • 1 Invited Speaker at United Nations Headquarters
  • 1 Patricia M. Carey Changemaker Award, and the inaugural recipient of the award
  • 1 Innovation Entrepreneurship Scholar
  • 1 recipient of the NYU Green Grant
  • 4 participants in the Leadership Summit on Climate Change
  • 1 Reynolds Changemaker Challenge Winner
  • 1 Distinguished Delegate Award at the international Model NATO Conference
  • 3 NYU Leadership Fellows alumni
  • 2 University Leadership Honors Course alumni
  • 4 recipients of Outstanding Service Awards
  • 1 International Student Leadership Award
  • 3 recipients of LS Social Impact Grants
  • 2 Global Equity Fellows and 3 Site Ambassadors for NYU Global Programs
  • 2 honorees for Prix Paris for Excellence and Prix Rousseau Award for Citizenship Spirit from NYU Paris
  • 8 served as Liberal Studies Student Leaders for first-year and prospective students

Employment

Graduates receiving employment offers from NYC Teaching Fellows, NY Public Libraries, Estee Lauder, Crown Affairs; and numerous other positions

Graduate School

Graduates receiving admission to pursue advanced degrees at Art Institute of Chicago, National University of Ireland, George Washington University, International Fashion Academy of Paris, Columbia University, NYU Law, and at least students continuing their graduate education at NYU Wagner ad GSAS

And dozens of recipients of a Dean's Global Research Grant, conducting research across the world to examine and understand critical global issues