New York University's Department of Classics provides undergraduate and graduate programs in the cultures and literature of ancient Rome and Greece. Programs provide students with the necessary philological, historical, and archaeological resources and tools to meaningfully access and understand ancient cultures, texts and evidence. The University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World provides facilities for advanced research and graduate doctoral and post-doctoral studies.
Students wishing to pursue graduate classical studies at Fordham University in the Bronx must have a minimum of 24 undergraduate credits in Latin and Greek. To attain a doctoral degree in classical philology, graduate students must complete extensive courses in Greek authors, Latin and Greek composition, two modern languages, one of which must be German, archaeology, ancient art and history.
The City University of New York Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue offers a doctorate in classical philology. Students must take courses in Greek and Latin rhetoric and stylistics, Greek and Latin poetry and prose of varying periods, Greek or Roman history and archaeology.
Students studying philology at Cornell will, according to its website, be taught from a "wide range of critical perspectives, on ancient authors from Homer to Boethius and on topics such as textual criticism, epigraphy, and Greek and Roman Religion." In addition to traditional classics subjects students will also study papyrology, numismatics and epigraphy.
Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Columbia University Classics Department offers graduate and doctoral degrees in classical studies and philology. At the undergraduate level, the classics major is offered with two tracks: classics proper and classical studies. Classics proper is recommended for students wishing to pursue graduate philology, as it predominantly concentrates on ancient languages and literature.