Graduate Studies
Welcome


Phone: 616-331-7105
Fax: 616-331-7317
graduatestudies@gvsu.edu

318C DeVos Center
401 W. Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49504



Grand Valley is a dynamic university that excels in serving the needs of West Michigan and the region through our quality graduate and professional programs at the Master's and Doctorate levels. Many of our alumni are now leaders in their professions throughout the state and Midwest. Our faculty members are dedicated, energetic, and active in their fields. They focus their talents on teaching, scholarship, and service that prepares graduate students to be leaders in their chosen profession or discipline.

Grand Valley is the only full-service, residential university campus in downtown Grand Rapids. This beautiful, state-of-the-art facility includes classrooms, laboratories, on-site faculty and student services staff, full service bookstore, food court, auditorium, case rooms and lecture halls, and a modern, technologically advanced library facility.  Residential facilities are available for the graduate student who wants to live on campus. For the times when you need to go to Allendale from downtown there is a free bus service operating every 15 minutes throughout the academic year.

Grand Valley State University also delivers many of our programs at regional centers in Holland, Muskegon and Traverse City. Teleconference and interactive television rooms on the Grand Rapids campus enable students to pursue graduate study from many locations across Michigan.

Please join us at Grand Valley State University and create your future. We're here to serve you and to make your graduate experience rewarding and successful.

Sincerely,

John R. Stevenson, PT,  Ph.D.

Interim Dean, Graduate Studies

Professor of Physical Therapy





 

Our Mission

Defining and supporting excellence in graduate education and the research and scholarly activities associated with it.

Articulating a vision of excellence in our decisions and policies about faculty, students, curriculum, and research direction.  

Serving as an advocate for graduate education and graduate students within the university in terms of resources, services, research, and other activities that support their endeavors and goals.

 

 What Do We Do?

 We administer the graduate assistantship (GA)  program, and the Dean of Graduate Studies approves all GA positions and appointments.

We are responsible for the review and approval of time limit extensions to program completion for graduate students.  (Grad students must complete their program within eight years from the time they begin.)

We handle policy exceptions for graduate students switching from non-degree to degree seeking who have taken "too many" credits as a non-degree seeking student.  (This is usually between 9-12 credit hours, depending on the program.)

We coordinate the work of the Graduate Council with the Provost's Office, the University Curriculum Commitee, and the University Academic Senate.

We meet regularly with a team of graduate program directors to discuss issues and resolve concerns facing graduate education at GVSU.

We work closely with Student Services to ensure that the needs of graduate students are being met.






  Last Modified Date: October 23, 2009
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