Fordham Graduate School of Social Service

The Fordham Graduate School of Social Service is a United States graduate school within Fordham University, in New York. Established in 1916, the school was designed to develop professional social workers committed to providing quality services, particularly to those sectors of the population whose social and economic opportunities are most limited by poverty and racism. Since its founding, the Graduate School of Social Service has become one of the nation's largest and most prestigious institutions for the education of social service professionals. In 2004, the school was ranked 14th in the nation by US News & World Report.

With locations at both the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan and the Tarrytown Graduate Center in Westchester, the school aims to provide graduates with knowledge of the relationship between person and environment, the skill to assist vulnerable individuals, families, organizations and communities, and the commitment to an evolving society increasingly characterized by justice. On Long Island a collaborative program with Molloy College in Rockville Centre is offered.

The Graduate School of Social Service has created a baccalaureate program in social work in connection with Fordham College at Lincoln Center and the Fordham College of Liberal Studies, and confers the degrees of master of social work and doctor of philosophy in social work.