The Graduate School
Why UT Graduate School?
The Graduate School was established in 1909, although graduate work had been offered since 1883. Almost 12,000 graduate students are enrolled and approximately 2,500 master's degrees and 800 doctoral degrees are awarded annually. The university awards the second largest number of doctoral degrees in the United States.
Graduate students, concurrent with earning a master's or doctoral degree, are allowed to earn certification in a master's or doctoral portfolio program--a cross-disciplinary area of inquiry. These cross-disciplinary programs are designed to give doctoral or master's students both breadth and depth in their scholarly training and will permit some students with degrees in highly esoteric areas of study to supplement their degrees with a more applied credential.