Departmental Resources

Independent Study Petition forms:

• MA students [doc]
• 1st year PhD students [doc]
• 2nd year PhD students [doc]

The Graduate School Resources

The Graduate School (TGS) at Northwestern maintains a number of web pages with useful information for current students:

• Academic services
• PhD Checklist [pdf]
• Academic calendar
• PhD Timeline
• Community building grants and activities
• TGS News
• Graduate Research Grant
• Conference Travel Grant
• Satisfactory Academic Progress Criteria
• TOEFL Information
• TA Equity:
  Teaching is an essential element of the education and training experience of PhD students at Northwestern. The Graduate School requires that all PhD students serve in some instructional capacity for at least one academic quarter during their graduate education at Northwestern. This teaching requirement is unique to American higher education, and is an integral aspect of professional development. Students are expected to do comparable teaching work to other students within their program. The Graduate School strives to ensure teaching demands are as similar as possible across academic programs.