Polytechnic offers graduate degrees at three levels: certificate, master's and doctoral.

Advanced certificate programs in emerging disciplines provide insights designed to help professionals maintain their knowledge base and help their companies be leaders of innovation. The certificate requires 15 credits focused in areas of interest to prospective students. Courses completed for an advanced certificate are applicable toward a master's degree in a related field.

Most graduate students work toward a master's degree. Polytechnic Institute of NYU offers the Master of Science (M.S.) and the Master of Engineering (M.E). Many of these programs are designed to lead to an eventual doctoral degree. In addition, Polytechnic offers "executive master's degrees," which allow busy professionals to earn their degree on a fast-track schedule (usually 28 weekends). The master's provides experience in research and scholarship, and it may be a final degree or a step toward a doctorate. A master's degree can lead to a career with greater responsibility and better pay than you might be able to have with a baccalaureate degree alone.

Doctoral degrees are the highest degrees attainable. A doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) is training for research and is required if you want to become a professor in a university, although probably more than half the people who hold Ph.D.s are not employed by universities. Almost every high-level scientific researcher has a Ph.D. degree.

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