When you choose to engage in doctoral work, you join a community dedicated to discovery and learning.
As a doctoral student, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in an area of scholarship; you will embark on a career of original research that will make you an expert in your chosen field. Your study and hard work will reward you as you prove mastery over your subject matter and demonstrate superior skills in research, analysis, and problem-solving, skills that are transferable to many professions. Your dedication will prepare you to become a leader, whether in academia or in a wide range of private- and public-sector professions off campus.
Earning a Ph.D. takes commitment and patience. It also holds out untold possibilities for personal and professional growth. The CUNY Graduate Center seeks to encourage all those possessed of able and resolute natures to make the choice to become experts. Recruiting and retaining students of the highest caliber is our first priority. Through close mentoring, careful instruction, research programs, opportunities for teaching, and financial assistance in various forms, we help our students stay on the road to the doctorate.
Graduate study is not for everyone. It is for those who can take the long view, and who can commit themselves to the patient acquisition and steady expansion of knowledge. But, as a recent CUNY Ph.D. said, "It's exciting to work at the frontier, with others who have made the same commitment to discovery." As they prepare themselves to lead, our doctoral students share in that pioneering excitement, drawing on a CUNY tradition of excellence and diversity, a distinguished and dedicated faculty, and the vitality lent a center of advanced study by its connection to the nation's greatest city.
