A Message from the Dean of Graduate Studies

I invite you to read the following selection from the Graduate Catalog:

A university is a place where men and women of character meet minds and ideas that have shaped and will continue to shape human experience in significant ways. It is a place where people read and think and create and analyze, and where they give expression to ideas. It is a place of intellectual and moral broadening and deepening. It is a place where people contribute new knowledge and arrive at new levels of understanding.

Graduate study distinguishes itself by advanced systematic study and experience in depth—a depth in understanding, knowledge, and scholarly competence and in inquiry and discovery. Successful graduates are equipped to contribute to their disciplines, to teach and transmit knowledge within their disciplines, to conduct research and be creative, to apply their learning in the everyday world, and ultimately to extend service to their disciplines and to humanity. Building on the foundation of a strong baccalaureate education, graduate study at BYU adds an expectation of significantly greater levels of competency. Through graduate study, students achieve mastery of a discipline by engaging its primary sources and comprehending its literature and methodologies. The graduate degree connotes that the graduate is not only aware of but has acquired experience in academic and professional roles and responsibilities.

Graduate study at Brigham Young University takes place within a learning environment characterized by rigorous programs of study, by selective admission of highly qualified students, and by a graduate faculty who are committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship and creative activity, and service.