A. Program Description. The PhD Program in history at The Graduate Center, CUNY is a major doctoral program, with a world-renowned faculty and a diverse group of students from around the country and abroad. Drawing on faculty members from throughout the City University of New York (CUNY), the program provides students with the opportunity to take classes from and work closely with an unusually broad group of scholars with an extraordinary range of expertise. Our courses are exclusively for graduate students, and small in size. Twelve new students enter the program each year. Most have MA degrees in History.

B. Special Programs. New York City has unrivalled resources for historical research, including the Research Division of the New York Public Library (a five minute walk from our campus) and many specialized libraries and archives. Through a consortium of research universities, Graduate Center students can take courses at the other major doctoral institutions in the New York area (and use their libraries). The Graduate Center itself has many interdisciplinary research and instructional centers.

C. Financial Aid. We provide a variety of financial aid and teaching opportunities. All our incoming students are awarded multi-year fellowship packages. Typically these provide tuition and stipends for five years; in years two, three, and four students teach at one of the CUNY colleges. We also offer other grants specifically for minority students.

Through the Graduate Center's affiliation with the CUNY undergraduate colleges, doctoral students have the opportunity for teaching experience while completing their degrees. Some students teach as part of their fellowships, others as adjunct instructors. Unlike at most universities, most of our graduate students usually teach their own courses, rather than run discussion and grading sections of large lecture courses.

D. Degree Requirements. Students must complete sixty credits, and fulfill course requirements of a major and minor field. Up to thirty credits may be transferred (with the approval of the program) from a History MA program. Students must pass a written examination in their major field before completing forty-five credits and an oral examination in their major and minor fields after completing all their courses. They also must complete a language requirement, which varies by major field of study.