SECTION ONE
OVERVIEW AND ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE
The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University is the liberal arts college of the
University. At the graduate level the College and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs offer doctoral education in fields of the arts and sciences, including 26 doctoral programs
and 35 master’s programs. The college enrolls some 3,200 undergraduate students and, with the
Maxwell School, some 1,200 graduate students. It has 370 faculty members. Since it is the central
college of the University -- where students from each of the professional schools take a significant
portion of their course work -- it serves a total university population of some 11,600 undergraduate
students and 4,100 graduate students.
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs serves as the undergraduate social
science division of the College of Arts and Sciences. It has its own dean, budget and offers
graduate degrees in the social sciences and in public administration. Faculty members appointed
to departments of the Maxwell School are thereby appointed to the Faculty of the College of Arts
and Sciences. They participate in all the committee work and college activities that other members
of the Faculty of the College do. Undergraduate students with majors in programs of the Maxwell
School are liberal arts students who graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences.
At Syracuse University 13 academic units are called “schools” or “colleges.” Of these, the
Graduate School and University College do not have faculties. The Graduate School oversees and
provides administrative support for graduate study in each of the other schools or colleges and
University College is responsible for continuing education. Of the remaining 11 schools or
colleges all but the Law School admit students as freshmen. They have distinctive curriculums,
though students in these schools or colleges do a good portion of their course work in the College
of Arts and Sciences.
The organizational chart displays the administrative units of the Dean’s Office of the
College.
Section One