About Stanford in New York (SiNY)
Academic Objective
Stanford in New York (SiNY) is an immersive academic and professional program that presents students with distinctive opportunities for engagement with one of the world's most dynamic cities. Through an intensive quarter of study, reflective internship practice, and experiential learning in New York, students hone their intellectual skills and capacities, develop their abilities as adaptive learners, and bolster their creative confidence in their personal, professional, academic, and civic endeavors. Students at SiNY work at full-time internships in the arts, design, media, finance, and more to explore and build career pathways while contextualizing their courses designed to leverage New York City's vast network of cultural institutions and professionals in these fields.
Program Highlights
Academics
Students take classes designed to leverage New York City's vast network of experts, professionals, and cultural institutions.
Internships
Students at SiNY work full-time, three or four-day-a-week internships in the arts, media, finance, and more.
Field Trips
Classes take students to shows, cultural sites, and the headquarters of some of the most exciting organizations in the world.
Themed Quarters
Autumn Quarter: The Arts, Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies
Broadway, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, the Chrysler Building, and Bushwick art galleries, downtown theater, public art: it is the extensive collection of works, programs, buildings, and institutions large and small that make New York City one of the greatest art capitals of the world. The Autumn quarter classes and internships explore the ways the city inspires, makes, and supports the arts, and the ways public, private, and nonprofit organizations play a role in shaping the city.
Winter Quarter: Media, Business, and Finance
Founded as a Dutch outpost for the purpose of making money, New York City has embraced commerce from its origins. The Winter quarter classes and internships explore the ways New York does business, from the high finance world of Wall Street to the stories it tells through its vast and rapidly changing media landscape.
Spring Quarter: The Global City
Often called the world's capital, New York City is home to the United Nations, world-class art collections and activities, offices of almost every major company in the world, and the immigrant communities of the most diverse borough in the United States (Queens). The Spring quarter classes and internships investigate how New York, as a complex, dynamic city, shapes and is shaped by concepts of globalism in various fields, industries, and lived experiences.