About the UNH Graduate School
"Graduate students play a key role at a research university, and the synergy of an outstanding faculty working with excellent students from around the world creates an exciting environment for discovery."
-- Harry J. Richards Dean,
the Graduate School
Deans Welcome
Graduate education is a valuable investment in your future, allowing you to maximize your talent, experience, creativity, and hard work to achieve your greatest potential.
The Graduate School works closely with the faculty to recruit talented and diverse students of the highest quality, provide competitive financial aid, ensure a challenging and contemporary curriculum, and offer the tools to prepare you for leadership.
Our programs closely align with the University’s best scholarship and research, and interdisciplinary studies are encouraged.
Graduate students play a key role at a research university, and the synergy of an outstanding faculty working with excellent students from around the world creates an exciting environment for discovery. Here, great ideas, creative contributions, and scientific breakthroughs happen often.
In addition to programs at our main campus in Durham, the Graduate School extends into central and southern New Hampshire through the Center for Graduate and Professional Studies, located at our urban campus in Manchester’s historic mill yard.
Whether your studies with find you in Durham, Manchester, or pursuing research with colleagues around the world, there’s no better way to explore and reach your full potential than with the University of New Hampshire.
Harry J. Richards
Dean, the Graduate School
Mission
The Graduate School provides innovative, responsive and accessible master’s and doctoral programs of the highest quality. Graduate programs foster a close interdependence between research and classroom teaching and enhance the undergraduate experience.
The graduate faculty and students work together to develop new theoretical and empirical knowledge, design innovative methods and technologies to discover and disseminate that knowledge, and engage in state-of-the-art teaching.
The Graduate School is a source of intellectual capital for the University, the region, and the nation. The Graduate School extends its programs and services for professional education to central and southern New Hampshire through the Center for Graduate and Professional Studies in Manchester.
Vision
The Graduate School and doctoral education distinguishes UNH as a research university. Master’s programs, both research and professional, further enhance the university’s public land-grant mission. The Graduate School supports the scholarly and creative efforts of the faculty and students, articulates and champions an institutional perspective on graduate education, promotes interdisciplinary scholarship and insures its graduates are prepared to become leaders.
Goals
In order to accomplish this vision, the Graduate School works to:
- Increase the visibility of graduate education on the campus, in the state and nationally.
- Enhance the diversity of our students and faculty.
- Ensure competitive compensation packages for graduate assistants.
- Increase the support for graduate students through competitive fellowships and scholarships, professional development programs and community development activities.
- Ensure that PhD enrollment and graduation rates are at levels sufficient to maintain the university’s position as a high research activity institution.
- Support and encourage the development of selective new graduate programs, including certificate programs, that build on the strengths of the faculty.
- Ensure that all graduate programs are of the highest quality through a sustained process of program review.
- Strengthen the relationship between research and graduate education.
- Strengthen the position of professional graduate program offerings in the Merrimack Valley under the Center for Graduate and Professional Studies.
Success
The Graduate School is an essential partner and valuable resource to the campus. Success is measured by the effectiveness of the Graduate School’s and the dean’s advocacy for graduate education and collaboration with the college deans, the Graduate Council, the Graduate Student Organization, the Graduate Coordinators, the Graduate Faculty and the program staff.
Harry J. Richards Dean,
the Graduate School
Did you know ...
- We get over 2000+ applicants a year; over 400 of those are international
- There are 2300+ active grad students, from 48 different states and over 100 countries
- The average GPA of our new students is around 3.4
- We offer a variety of degrees through our Center in Manchester, with over 100 active students participating
