Many Humanistic Studies majors go on to graduate school at some point in their careers. They pursue advanced degrees in law, business, and medicine as well as humanistic disciplines such as history, literature, or art. Historically, our graduates have been quite successful in their applications to these programs.
To answer student questions about graduate school, the faculty usually holds a brief symposium every fall entitled "Graduate School in the Humanities." In addition to discussing their own experiences in graduate school, faculty members address the questions of when and whether to go to graduate school; where to go; what to study; how to pay for it. Numerous scholarships and fellowships can help finance graduate study. One very generous but very competitive program that covers the first year of study in a PhD program is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies www.woodrow.org/mellon. A useful site for researching graduate programs by subject area and geography is: www.gradschools.com.
Rather than specialize with a MA or PhD in an individual discipline, some of our graduates wish to continue the sort of broadly based, interdisciplinary study they have experienced in Humanistic Studies. Fortunately, a number of graduate programs cater to this interest, including:
Master of Arts Program
Committee on General Studies in the Humanities
The University of Chicago
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (PhD Program)
Emory University
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Georgetown University
Arts & Letters Program (M.Litt, D.Litt)
Drew University (Madison, NJ)
gradm@drew.edu
The Graduate Institute Program in Liberal Arts
St. John's College (Annapolis, MD; Santa Fe, NM)
www.sjcsf.edu
PhD in Comparative Studies
Florida Atlantic University
www.publicintellectuals.fau.edu/
Cultural Studies Program (MA, PhD)
Claremont Graduate University
www.cgu.edu/hum/cul
Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts (MA, PhD)
The University Professors
Boston University
