Programs of Study
Programs of Study

Graduate education at the University of Michigan is a shared enterprise. Rackham Graduate School works together with faculty in the schools and colleges of the university to provide more than 180 graduate degree programs and to sustain a dynamic intellectual climate within which graduate students thrive.
Admissions
Admissions

Rackham Graduate School and individual graduate programs work as a team to manage the application review process. As an applicant, you will be interacting with both Rackham and your program office.
Funding
Funding

The University of Michigan provides many sources of financial assistance to help students meet educational and living expenses. Whether you are a prospective student, a current student, a master’s or doctoral student, we want to make sure you know about the funding available for your graduate education.
Navigating Your Degree
Navigating Your Degree

From your first registration through the final stages of the degree process, we’re here to help every step of the way.
Professional Development
Professional Development

Rackham offers opportunities, funding, and resources that prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to access the wide range of careers available to them, and to pursue interdisciplinary learning and community building related to professional interests.
Student Experience
Student Experience

Resources to support the diverse backgrounds and experiences that compose our Rackham community.
About
About

Students are enrolled in Rackham degree programs (doctoral, master’s, dual degree, and certificate) taught and advised by faculty in graduate programs in nearly every school and college across the Ann Arbor campus. Rackham graduate programs are also located on the Dearborn and Flint campuses, where they are administered separately.

Graduate Financial Education: 1:1 Consultation Hours

Have questions about managing your finances as a graduate student? Schedule a one-on-one appointment with Heather Moore, Ph.D., assistant director of financial education and engagement, for personalized guidance tailored to your financial goals and questions.

During your appointment, you can discuss topics such as: Budgeting and saving strategies, Student loans and repayment options, Income taxes for graduate students, Credit and credit cards, Building healthy financial habits, Other graduate student financial questions.

How to Register:
Register for your preferred appointment date through Sessions.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to Heather’s Google Booking Calendar.

Open the Google Booking Calendar and select your preferred appointment time from the available times listed for the date for which you registered.

Appointments are typically 15 minutes, though longer appointment times may be available depending on Heather’s availability.

To make the most of your appointment time, please come prepared with one or two questions you would like to discuss. You are also welcome to bring a budget or other financial information you would like to review. Appointments are brief, so arriving prepared will help you maximize your time and get the guidance you are looking for.

If you have any questions regarding registration and booking your appointment, please contact [email protected].

King Talks Information Session

These sessions will provide an overview of the application process, expected time commitment, and compensation associated with serving as a 2027 King Talks speaker. Interested individuals only need to attend one session.

Career Exploration Resources & Strategies (for Graduate Students)

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking, transferable skills, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers, and there will be plenty of time for your questions. This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available. This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact [email protected] to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Brought to you by the University Career Center, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.

King Talks Information Session

Interviewing for Jobs and Internships (for Graduate Students)

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can differ greatly from the academic job search process. It also meets the needs of those applying to internships, including those applying to the Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship Program. The workshop will focus on preparing graduate students to navigate the interview process, and to effectively answer questions by strategically articulating strengths and skills. We will also discuss a framework for answering behavioral interview questions. This event is intended to be interactive, therefore a recording will not be available. This workshop is designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact [email protected] to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Brought to you by the University Career Center, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.

Faculty Workshop on Holistic Graduate Admissions for Excellence and Diversity

Holistic admissions practices are an integral part of achieving both diversity and excellence when admitting graduate student cohorts. This workshop is designed to provide concrete strategies and evidence-based practices to support faculty and program goals in admitting diverse and excellent cohorts of graduate students. This workshop will provide members of graduate admissions committees an opportunity to develop their own holistic admissions tools.

King Talks Information Session

Citations Beyond “Playing the Game:” Building a Robust Citation Policy

In this workshop, participants will bring a personal research project to assess or map out a citation policy that reflects their commitments and values.

Sara Ahmed tells us that “citations can be feminist bricks: they are the materials through which, from which, we create our dwellings.” Our citation policies “affec[t] the kind of house” in which we spend our intellectual lives (Living a Feminist Life 15). In this workshop, participants begin by reflecting on their various commitments and values before engaging in a discussion of the shared reading. The session concludes with individual and collaborative workshop time targeting feasibility in their designs. Participants assess citations in a recent project to determine the extent to which they have used citations to build the kind of “dwelling” they want to occupy and explore options for further renovating. Alternatively, participants may bring a project they have not yet researched fully in order to map a citation policy for that project.

Qualifiers: This is a workshop especially designed for those in the humanities, social and applied sciences. Before the workshop, we ask that you read an eight-page excerpt (sent to those who register) from Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life.

What Is My “Academic” Voice?

This workshop seeks to assist participants in realizing their writing voice and how it relates to academic conventions of formality and genre.

Do you feel that your academic writing should “sound” a certain way? Have you been told to alter the way your thoughts show up on the page? Depending on the rhetorical situation, audience, and medium, our writing voice adopts different formalities. During this workshop, we’ll unpack how tone, syntax, and diction intertwine to encompass our individual writing style. We’ll begin by understanding your thought processes through presenting ideas in your own way, then moving through exercises that will guide you through how to incorporate feedback while maintaining uniqueness and clarity.

Editing and Style for Graduate Writers

This workshop offers practical strategies for reading, writing, and revising academic texts while identifying transferable patterns across disciplinary genres.

Graduate students are required to navigate a range of academic writing conventions, genres, expectations, and audiences. This workshop will help graduate student writers identify critical strategies for reading and writing academic texts. We’ll talk about how to approach unfamiliar writing tasks, develop drafting and revision practices, and identify patterns across all disciplinary forms of academic writing. The workshop will conclude by identifying our learning goals and developing best methods for achieving them.

How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students

Learn tips for editing your own writing and explore the rhetorical effectiveness of stylistic elements commonly found in academic and professional writing, then practice applying these strategies to your work.

How can you catch grammatical or typographical errors before submitting your conference paper? How can you “sound” like yourself while maintaining a professional, academic voice in your dissertation? In this workshop, you will focus on applying editing strategies and stylistic choices in graduate writing. You will learn tips for editing your own writing and practice identifying common grammatical and typographical errors in writing samples. You will also explore the rhetorical effectiveness of stylistic elements commonly found in academic and professional writing and practice applying them to your own writing project. Writers should bring a current writing project to work on.

Joining a Scholarly Conversation

This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments. Participants will work with peers to talk through rhetorical decisions scholars make when identifying and responding to interlocutors and set goals of how to use the workshop experience in their own graduate writing careers.

What’s Reading Got to Do with It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School

This workshop will address how you can read strategically to support your work as a writer in your academic field and discipline.

What is the relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes? How can you read to support your work as a writer in your specific academic field and discipline? In this 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop, you will discover answers to these questions through guided reflection on your current reading (and writing) practices, as well as a hands-on introduction to specific reading strategies that support writing. You’ll also leave with additional resources and ideas for how to continue to explore and develop the reading-writing connection in your own academic work.

How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School?: From the Practical to the Philosophical

This workshop will address time management strategies, and effective habits and motivation for early graduate school success.

Time management and productivity may not seem like an exciting topic, but harnessing concrete tactics and strategies for how to maintain autonomy and agency over your own schedule is a crucial skill in graduate school. You will find yourself juggling multiple, and often competing, priorities– and many of them have to do with writing… lots, and lots of writing! This 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop will address time management strategies across scales (from pomodoros to physical planners to semester and year-long planning), as well as considerations regarding habits and motivation. The earlier you find what works for you, the more you can tailor your schedule to fit your life instead of the other way around!