Graduate School

Urban Studies Program

Urban Education Policy

Graduate education is a responsibility of the best universities, to prepare faculty, scholars, and researchers to assume positions of leadership in a wide range of academic and professional fields. Graduate students work with faculty in the production of new knowledge at the forefront of the disciplines and they ensure that undergraduates are integrated into those endeavors. Accordingly, enhancing our graduate programs and our ability to attract the best students to those programs is a critically important goal.

Goals, Objectives, and Proposals

Graduate School Has Grant to Improve Doctoral Completion Rates

Brown University’s Graduate School is among 22 universities selected to participate in the Ph.D. Completion Project, a national initiative to increase completion rates in doctoral programs. The program is administered by the Council of Graduate Schools, with support from Pfizer Inc. and the Ford Foundation. [More]

Working Group on Graduate Education

The Dean of the Graduate School has convened a working group on graduate education. This group will address immediate needs and long-range plans for graduate programs at Brown. The group will focus principally on the size and scope of the Graduate School and on the critical role of research in graduate training and support. [More]