The range of programs offered by the Georgetown University Graduate School reflects the diversity and creativity of our faculty and students. We welcome your interest in Georgetown's graduate programs, and hope that you will find among them one that excites you.

Graduate education at Georgetown reflects the Jesuits' principle that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding should be combined with a responsibility to contribute to the common good. This principle is reflected in the fact that many of our masters programs are concerned with matters of public policy. Also, all Georgetown Ph.D. students learn to communicate intellectual ideas in various social settings, including in our classrooms, where they challenge and are challenged by some of the brightest undergraduates in the world.

Larger universities offer more numerous and more comprehensive graduate programs, but Georgetown, boutique-like, offers more focused programs, occupying niches of intellectual life. Some are unique. Furthermore, we recognize that much innovative work comes from making new connections and we are open to students formulating joint degree programs, including programs offered jointly with another university. If you are interested in such options, go to "Individualized Joint Degree Programs" on our website, apply to the Georgetown program that interests you and propose a joint program within the parameters defined on the website.

Please feel free to contact either the Graduate School or our individual programs with any questions you may have.

Timothy A. Barbari, Ph.D.
Dean of the Graduate School and  Assoc. Provost for Research