OpenFieldSyracuse University · Syracuse, New York, United States
Syracuse University is an internationally renowned private R1 research university located in Syracuse, New York. Acclaimed worldwide for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications (the nation's foremost media school) and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (consistently ranked the #1 public affairs school in America), Syracuse is also globally prominent in gravitational wave astrophysics (LIGO contributor), veterans education, architecture, and computer engineering.
Syracuse comprises 13 schools and colleges, including Newhouse, Maxwell, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the School of Architecture, the College of Law, and the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The university operates modern cleanrooms, the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, and supercomputing clusters for astrophysics.
Undergraduate admissions evaluate high school academic rigor (average GPA 3.7), personal essays, and extracurricular leadership on a test-optional basis. Graduate admissions require an accredited bachelor's degree with a 3.0+ minimum GPA (3.5+ for competitive doctoral fellowships), GRE scores (program-specific), detailed research statement of purpose, and three academic letters of recommendation.
Joint professional master's degree from Newhouse and Maxwell preparing diplomats, international broadcasters, and global NGO strategists through integrated public policy and international communications coursework.
Carnegie R1 doctoral program investigating safe autonomous robotics, deep neural network formal verification, distributed cyber systems, and cyber-physical security.
Elite doctoral program renowned for leading roles in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, detecting gravitational waves from merging binary black holes, and biological soft matter physics.
Consistently ranked the #1 MPA program in the United States by U.S. News, preparing leaders in public policy, public budgeting, nonprofit governance, and international development.
Doctoral research degree focusing on autonomous flight controls, hypersonics, turbomachinery aerodynamics, and multiscale computational fluid mechanics.
Graduate and upper-division research fellowship working directly on optical coatings, thermal noise reduction, and cryogenic silicon suspensions for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors (Cosmic Explorer).
Chancellor and President & Professor of Law
Office of the Chancellor
Kent Syverud serves as the 12th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, an eminent legal scholar and former dean of Vanderbilt Law School and Washingto...
View researcher profile ↗Dean & Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Dr. Van Slyke leads the Maxwell School, a prominent scholar on public-private partnerships, government contracting, executive leadership, and strategic public m...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Physics & LIGO Instrument Scientist
Department of Physics & Syracuse Gravitational Wave Group
Dr. Ballmer is an internationally recognized physicist who contributed to the historic Nobel Prize-winning detection of gravitational waves, designing optical s...
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