Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, is a school within Baruch College of the City University of New York, named after alumni George Weissman, former president of Philip Morris, and his wife, Mildred.

The Weissman School is one of the three schools that comprise Baruch College and offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in various disciplines. While the Zicklin School of Business is Baruch's largest school, Weissman offers a majority of the courses in the required core curriculum for undergraduates.

Jeffrey Peck has been the dean of the school since August 2008.

Undergraduate Programs

The Weissman school offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in:

• Actuarial Science
• Art
• Biology/Pre-Medicine
• Business Communication (with specializations in Corporate or Graphic Communication)
• Economics (BBA option offered by the Zicklin School)
• English Literature
• History
• Journalism (with specializations in Journalism/Creative Writing or Business Journalism)
• Liberal Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Major
• Management of Musical Enterprises
• Mathematics
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Anthropology
• Spanish
• Statistics

Graduate programs

The Weissman School also offers three programs leading to a Master's Degree:

• Corporate Communication (MA)
• Financial Engineering (MS)
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology (MS)

In October 2009, Baruch's MS program in Financial Engineering was ranked as one of the top ten in North America by QuantNetwork......
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