The Executive Leaders Scholarship is a merit award from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York City. It goes to select applicants to the school’s Executive MPA for Public Service Leaders.
There is no separate scholarship form: every admission application is considered, and recipients are chosen on fit for the award and the strength of the whole application.
Benefits & funding
- A 25% scholarship toward the Executive MPA; the page gives the share, not a dollar figure.
- Remaining tuition and living costs are the student’s own.
Eligibility
- Applicants to the Executive MPA for Public Service Leaders; full- and part-time applicants are both considered.
- The EMPA’s own admission rules apply, including at least 7 years of professional experience.
- Students in a dual master’s degree with another NYU school may still receive one-time merit scholarships, applied only while studying at Wagner.
- No nationality, residence, age or gender rule is published for this award.
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Education required
Bachelor
Experience required
≥ 7 yrs
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Application process
- 1Submit the NYU Wagner online application for the Executive MPA; no extra scholarship essay is required.
- 2For priority scholarship consideration for Fall 2027, submit a complete application by 1 December 2026, 11:59 p.m. US Eastern.
- 3Decisions for that round are released by 2 March 2027.
Program timeline
1 Dec 2026
Early Action & Priority Scholarship deadline (Fall 2027)
2 Mar 2027
Decisions for the December round
Later in the cycle
further deadlines to be announced