Fast Facts
- More than 1,500 students are enrolled in 44 master's degree programs and 27 Ph.D. programs. Graduate school students represent a diverse international student body, representing more than 50 countries.
- Nationally ranked programs in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, English, education, nursing, public history, philosophy and social work are housed in the Graduate School.
- The Graduate School offers several biomedical sciences programs in neurosciences; microbiology and immunology; cell and molecular physiology; molecular biology; cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy; pharmacology and experimental therapeutics; and bioethics and health policy. Additional research opportunities exist in four interdisciplinary Institutes: Neurosciences and Aging, Cardiovascular, Oncology, and Burn and Shock Trauma.
- During academic year 2004-2005, Graduate School students and faculty secured nearly $8 million in external grants from such funding agencies as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Chemical Institute, McNeal Health Foundation, and the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services.
- Centers of Excellence support interdisciplinary graduate education and research in Urban Environmental Research and Policy, Child and Family Studies, and Catholic Intellectual Heritage.
- The Graduate School offers its students a wide array of internal and external funding opportunities, including: teaching stipends, research stipends, diversity faculty in Illinois fellowships, Fulbright awards, Crown fellowships for humanities students, Schmitt Fellowships to support dissertation research, and tuition assistance.
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