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Congratulations, Rackham Graduates!

The 2025 Rackham Graduate Exercises took place on Friday, May 2, honoring our newest class of master’s and Ph.D. recipients. Watch the video of the ceremony from U-M’s Crisler Center. 

The Hidden Costs of Tax Havens

Rackham Ph.D. student Simon Rakei studies tax havens and their impacts on local communities.

The Art of Seeing the World

Ph.D. student Caroline New explores the interconnectedness of the natural world through art, poetry, and her anthropological studies.

The First Michiganders

Rackham archaeology Ph.D. student Brendan Nash works to shed light on Michigan’s earliest human settlement and the lives of these ancient hunter-gatherers.

Introducing the GradWell Podcast

Created for graduate students by a graduate student, GradWell is a limited-series podcast exploring the journey to greater well-being.

Rackham’s Strategic Vision for Graduate Education

Rackham is leading a charge to reenvision graduate education at U-M in a way that is student centered and faculty led, and that emphasizes a holistic view of graduate training.

Applications for Admission

Discover Rackham

Stories, blog posts, and more illuminating the experiences of graduate life and highlighting the impact of our students’ critical research.

2025 Predoctoral Fellowship

Announcing the 2025-2026 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral candidates working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.

Three people stand side by side in front of a blue University of Michigan backdrop, smiling at the camera.

Equitable Engagement in Environmental Journalism

Three Rackham alums bring their student capstone project to the public.

Mahnoor Gondal, wearing a patterned hijab, smiles at the camera on a sandy hill overlooking the ocean, while others explore the area and take photos.

A Student’s View of Research, STEM Mentorship, and More

Rackham student Mahnoor Gondal offered her perspectives in a recent U-M Medical School Q&A.

The Distinguished Dissertation Award winners.

Announcing the 2024 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners

The Rackham Graduate School is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards.

Rackham by the Numbers

Browse statistics and interactive visualizations of the activity and culture of our graduate programs, including data on enrollment, funding, completion rates, and placement.

Doctoral Students

Master's Students

Postdoctoral Fellows