Show Up With NYU Silver

Join the fight for social change with the powerful knowledge gained through rigorous coursework and intensive hands-on training. Renowned for our clinical excellence, commitment to social justice, and innovative teaching, which prepare our graduates for careers of meaningful impact, NYU Silver’s comprehensive curriculum provides a strong foundation whether your interest is practice, policy, research, or administration.

NYU Silver embraces the core values of the social work profession enumerated in the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics.

These core values, embraced by social workers throughout the profession’s history, are the foundation of social work’s unique purpose and perspective:

• Service
• Social justice
• Dignity and worth of the person
• Importance of human relationships
• Integrity
• Competence

This constellation of core values reflects what is unique to the social work profession.

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics’ Ethical Principles are intended to serve as a guide to the everyday professional conduct of social workers.

Where Students Come From

Student Race and Ethnicity

Student Gender Identity*

Manhattan: Washington Square, Greenwich Village

Rockland County: St. Thomas Aquinas College

Westchester County: Sarah Lawrence College

Shanghai: NYU Shanghai, Pudong

In the classroom you will learn from outstanding faculty who are some of the best instructors in the profession. Through closely supervised practicum internships you will gain real world, professional experience.

NYU Silver’s strong partnerships with more than 600 public and nonprofit agencies means that we can offer our students practicum placements in an impressive range of sites. Our placements provide students with dynamic learning opportunities through which they develop skills and better understand the realities of coping with complex problems in the context of specific professional settings.

Practicum placements are available across a spectrum of practice areas including:

• Adult Services
• Aging
• Evolving Justice and Forensic Social Work
• Child, Youth and Family Services
• Disabilities
• Mental Health
• Healthcare
• Macro Practice in Organizations, Policy, Program Planning & Development
• Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders
• Palliative & End-of-Life Care
• School-Based Services

NYU Silver offers exciting global learning opportunities, through which students are immersed in different cultures and examine the values, ethics, ideologies, and approaches used in social work practice.

Intensive courses have recently been offered in:

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Core Concepts in Childhood and Adolescent Trauma

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Comparative Mental Health Policy & Practice in the United Kingdom and the United States

London, United Kingdom
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Policy & Practice in a Global Context

Washington, DC
Advanced Social Policy: Social Work and Legislative Advocacy

* Source: New York University Wasserman Center for Career Development 2023 Graduate Career Outcomes Survey, which collected post-graduate outcomes information from 70% of the NYU Silver Class of 2023.

** Source: 2022 NYU Silver ASWB Pass Rate Summary Report

Silver Champions

Silver Champions is an ambassador program that connects prospective and newly admitted students with current MSW students or MSW alumni. Champions are volunteers who draw upon their experiences to highlight the opportunities and benefits of an NYU education. They have the necessary skills to help newly admitted and prospective students throughout the application process and serve as mentors.

Business Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm ET

Admissions: silver.admissions@nyu.edu, 212.998.5910

Silver Scholarship and Financial Education Office: silver.financialaid@nyu.edu

Connect with a current MSW student: Champions/Admissions Ambassadors