New and Current Students
Welcome to the Graduate College website for New and Current Students. Here you will find Graduate College policies, manuals and other publications, and information regarding commencement.
Our Newsletter keeps you up-to-date on the latest information you need.
Student Services including health, mental health, housing, childcare, and many other services that can help your life on campus be more manageable and pleasant.
If you're graduating, please do our exit survey. We really need your feedback to have excellent programs.
Schedule of classes (course offerings)
Steps to your degree (Degree Certification site)
Responsible Conduct of Research (including Human Subjects information)
Costs and Fees Financial Resources
Graduate Assistant/Associate info/resources
Family Friendly Policies
- Parental leave
- Temporary Alternative Duty Assignments for TAs (TADA)
- Extension of Time to Degree
- Additional Resources for Student Parents
Other useful links:
- Graduate and Professional Student Council
- TA information
- Other Student Organizations
- Graduate Writing Institute
- Graduate Writing Resource
- Veterans Education & Transition Services
- Subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education Graduate Student newsletter (scroll down to the bottom)
- Good advice on graduate education from UW
- Tomorrow's Professor advice and articles
- Help with presentations: Advice from experts with AAU data exchange
- For Fun: NPR's Three Books for Surviving Graduate School
- The Education Payoff. This report examines lifetime earnings for all education levels and earnings by occupation, age, race/ethnicity and gender. The data are clear: a college degree is key to economic opportunity, conferring substantially higher earnings on those with credentials than those without.
Please contact us if you have any questions not addressed here.