Graduate College

Susan Stapleton
Dean

The Graduate College offers a wide variety of programs leading to the master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees.

Accelerated degree programs allow eligible students the opportunity to complete both an undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in less time because the student may begin taking graduate courses while still an undergraduate. During their senior year of their undergraduate careers, students in the accelerated program may substitute up to 12 credit hours of graduate course work for undergraduate course work. Once they enter graduate school, they’re able to quickly move through their master’s degree (or Au.D.) requirements because they’ve already taken several graduate classes. Accelerated degrees are offered for the following master’s programs: Blindness and Low vision Studies – Orientation and Mobility; Civil Engineering; Communication; Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering; Industrial Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Music; Paper and Imaging Science and Engineering; Social Work; Spanish; Statistics; and Vision Rehabilitation Therapy. The Au.D. Audiology is also offered as an accelerated program.

The Master of Arts is awarded in the following programs: Anthropology; Applied Economics: Art Education; Biological Sciences; Career and Technical Education; Coaching Sports Performance; Communication; Comparative Religion; Counseling Psychology; Counselor Education; Creative Writing; Earth Science; Educational Leadership; Educational Technology; English; Evaluation, Measurement, and Research; Family and Consumer Sciences; Geography; History; Literacy Studies; Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Medieval Studies; Music; Organizational Learning and Performance; Orientation and Mobility; Philosophy; Physical Education; Physics; Political Science: Practice of Teaching; Psychology; Public Administration; Science Education; Socio-Cultural Studies of Education; Special (Adapted) Physical Education; Special Education; Sport Management; Teaching Children With Visual Impairments and/or Orientation and Mobility; Teaching (Master of Arts in Teaching M.A.T.); ; and Vision Rehabilitation Therapy.

The University also offers the Master of Science in the following areas: Accountancy; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Athletic Training; Biological Sciences; Business Administration (MBA); Chemistry; Computer Science; Creative Writing (MFA); Engineering (Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical); Engineering Management; Exercise Physiology; Geosciences; International Development Administration (MIDA); Manufacturing Engineering; Music (MM); Nursing; Occupational Therapy; Paper and Imaging Science and Engineering; Physician Assistant; Public Administration (MPA); Social Work (MSW); and Statistics.

In addition:

The Specialist in Education is offered in Educational Leadership.

The Doctor of Education is offered in Special Education.

The Doctor of Audiology is offered in Speech Pathology and Audiology.

Joint Juris Doctor and Master of Public Administration degrees are offered in partnership with the WMU Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

The WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine offers an M.D. Degree.

The Doctor of Philosophy is offered in Applied Economics; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Collegiate Math Education; Computer Science; Counseling Psychology; Counselor Education; Educational Leadership; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Engineering and Applied Sciences; English; Evaluation (Interdisciplinary); Evaluation, Measurement, and Research; Geosciences; History; Industrial Engineering; Interdisciplinary Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies (Beginning Fall 2015); Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Mechanical Engineering; Paper and Imaging Science and Engineering; Physics; Political Science; Psychology; Public Administration; Science Education; Sociology; Spanish; and Statistics.

The Graduate College offers several graduate certificate programs:

Graduate certificate programs are offered in the following areas: Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Applied Statistics, Interdisciplinary; BioStatistics; Educational Technology; Ethnohistory; Geographic Information Science; Gerontology (beginning Fall 2015); Health Care Administration; Higher Education and Student Affairs; History of Monastic Movements; Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness; Music Performance; Nonprofit Leadership and Administration; Spirituality, Culture and Health.

Please refer to the Graduate Catalog for further information on these programs, as well as on admission and graduation requirements. Or visit the Graduate College website http://www.wmich.edu/grad.