About the Graduate School
The Graduate School administers all advanced degree programs offered in the College of Community and Public Affairs, the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Management, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science. The Graduate School prepares students with training in scholarly study, advanced research, teaching and professional leadership.
The Graduate School was formally established by the faculty in 1975 and is under the administration of the vice provost and dean of the Graduate School. The faculty of the Graduate School comprises all full professors, associate professors and assistant professors in departments, schools and colleges offering instructional programs leading to advanced degrees. The governing body of the Graduate School is the Graduate Council.
The Graduate School works closely with the deans, graduate directors, and faculty of Binghamton University’s schools, colleges, and academic departments to support student success and provide administrative coordination for admissions, funding, and academic affairs. The Graduate School is committed to providing graduate students with professional and scholarship development opportunities. In addition, the Graduate School hosts several interdisciplinary academic programs, where coursework spans across individual college boundaries and curriculum is a shared responsibility.
For more information on graduate policies and procedures, please see the Academic Policies and Procedures for Graduate Students section of the Academic Guide’s University Academic Policies section.
The strength of the graduate programs in the arts and sciences rests on the high quality of a faculty distinguished for its scholarship as well as its teaching. Graduate students typically learn in small seminars and prepare their work with close supervision from faculty members.
Departments assign a faculty advisor to help new graduate students choose courses appropriate to their programs and interests, and, as students progress through coursework toward research for master’s and doctoral degrees, they have mentors in their fields of study.
As a selective university center, Binghamton offers more than 30 doctoral programs. The Harpur College of Arts and Sciences houses doctoral programs in fine arts, humanities, mathematics, sciences, and social sciences. These doctoral programs help fulfill one of the University’s crucial missions: to prepare a professoriate and a capable, trained workforce ready to think through the problems of the future and to contribute creativity and invention in a variety of disciplines.
All of these divisions offer master’s degrees as well, and many collaborate with the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership in the College of Community and Public Affairs to offer advanced degrees for students who plan to teach at the elementary or secondary levels. The master’s-level study prepares students for professional practice and encourages habits of analysis and reflection that lead some students to further study in the discipline.
Several advanced certificate programs, which may be pursued in addition to degree programs, emphasize interdisciplinary study in various fields.
Admissions
Please see Graduate Admissions page for information on graduate program admittance.
Below you will find information for gradute level programs managed by the Graduate School. For graduate programs managed by one of our other academic schools or colleges, please visit the school’s page in the Academic Guide, found on the navigation bar to the left.
Graduate Programs
Combined Programs