Student Outcomes and Faculty
Student Outcomes
- Celebrated the first NYU Rhodes Scholars in a generation: two from NYU New York and six from NYU Abu Dhabi, including two in that school’s inaugural 2014 class.
- Revamped the student outcomes assessment survey “Life Beyond the Square” in 2004 to judge the employment and educational outcomes of NYU undergraduates.
- Within six months of graduating NYU in 2014, 94.7% of respondents were either employed or enrolled in a graduate or professional school program; of these, 85.3% were working. Comparatively, the Class of 2004 placement rate was 93.5% with 72% reported working.
- The overall mean annual salary for 2014 respondents was $55,647—up from $45,300 in 2004.
- Within six months of graduating NYU in 2014, 94.7% of respondents were either employed or enrolled in a graduate or professional school program; of these, 85.3% were working. Comparatively, the Class of 2004 placement rate was 93.5% with 72% reported working.
Faculty Outcomes
During Sexton’s presidency:
- Launched the Partners Plan, expanding NYU’s arts and science faculty by 125 tenured and tenure-track positions—or 20% of the Faculty of Arts and Science total—the largest such expansion in NYU’s history.
- Between 2004 and 2013, the number of full-time faculty at Washington Square increased by 632 or 31%.
Awards and Achievements
- Since 2002, members of NYU’s past and current faculty have been awarded:
- Four Nobel Prizes (three in economics and one in chemistry)
- Four Abel Prizes in Mathematics. No other institution in the world has had such a concentration of this award, considered the Nobel Prize for math.
- Two National Medals of Science
- One National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- Four National Humanities Medals
- Four Nobel Prizes (three in economics and one in chemistry)
- Since 2002, the number of faculty who are elected members of the National Academy of Sciences has grown from 18
to 37.