Our curriculum will provide a strong and generalizable set of research skills, significant research and publication experience, and expertise in particular topics and sub-fields. We aim to provide an educational experience that can be tailored to each student’s interests in preparing for careers as faculty in research-intensive institutions, faculty in teaching-intensive institutions, or researchers in non-academic settings.
The Ph.D. program is a six-year degree program. Although students will normally earn a master’s degree on the way to the Ph.D., we do not offer a stand-alone master’s degree program. All required coursework is meant to be completed within the first three years, although students may continue to take elective courses after the third year. The program is designed in an integrated and streamlined way so that students have ample opportunity to develop research on their own and with faculty and peers.