Welcome to the Graduate College Web Site
If you are considering graduate study at Illinois, you will find here a large array of outstanding graduate and professional programs, many of them ranked among the very best in the nation. Top-notch faculty, superb libraries and research laboratories, and a robust research-funding environment enrich graduate education across a wide spectrum of disciplines and interdisciplinary study.
You can find information about these graduate programs, about how to apply to them, and about financial aid available to students enrolled in them, by clicking on Directory of Programs.
The Graduate College has oversight responsibilities for about 9,000 students pursuing degrees in over 100 master's and doctoral programs in more than a dozen academic colleges, schools, and institutes. The Graduate College works closely with individual graduate students, with the Graduate Student Advisory Council, with graduate faculty and graduate program administrative staff, with the academic colleges, with the campus administration, with the Office of Admissions and Records, and with many Student Affairs units, to address a wide range of issues basic to graduate education at Illinois.
Because of the interconnectedness of just about everything we do in the Graduate College, we have tried to make these pages as readable and functional and easily navigable as possible. We wish to present in these pages the services, policies, programs, and procedures of the Graduate College and the people who make them work. We have also tried to facilitate access to the many units with which we cooperate to ensure the quality of graduate education at Illinois. We hope these pages will point prospective students toward an understanding of how Illinois can help them achieve their goals for graduate study. We also hope these pages will lead continuing students, faculty and staff to the information they need. Please let us know if there are ways we can make these pages more useful to you.
Richard P. Wheeler
Dean
