Degree Requirements
The Graduate School's degree requirements are kept to a minimum in order to give the Special Committee and the student freedom to determine appropriate degree requirements and to define a program of study best suited to your particular goals. However, this overview provides details about registration units, transfering credits, and summer study.

Fields of Study
At Cornell, graduate degree programs are directed by Fields of Study, which set the academic standards and requirements for specific disciplines, and major and minor degrees.

Grad Study at Cornell
With 94 major fields and 16 minor fields of study, and with 15 different graduate degrees awarded, graduate study at Cornell defies easy categorization. But despite our enormously diverse academic offerings, a few common practices unify the Graduate School experience. Here's a quick guide.

Life at Cornell
Things to do, places to go, and how to find things once you get here.

Graduate Faculty
The Graduate Faculty is made up of more than 1,700 professors. This search tool allows you to search by name or topic area.

Diversity at Cornell
Ever since Ezra Cornell and A.D. White joined forces to "found a university where any person can find instruction in any study," Cornell has been at the forefront of higher education in embracing students, faculty, and staff of both genders and of all backgrounds and ethnicities.

GRE & TOEFL test codes
GRE and TOEFL requirements vary by field. This listing provides codes for test-takers. Please see the Fields of Study online catalog for details on general, subject, and writing assessment test requirements.

Summer Research Programs
Programs for undergraduates, from the Cornell Center for Materials Research to the Ralph Bunche Institute.

History
Graduate study at Cornell is truly unique, the culmination of the vision of Cornell's founders and a tradition built around research and intellectual freedom.