Location: Burlington

The Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics offers a Master of Science degree. The M.S. degree requires a minimum of 30 credits of research and coursework, a qualifying exam for candidacy, and the writing and defense of a thesis. The objective of this program is to provide a broad knowledge base of Microbiological and Molecular Genetic concepts to increase their competitiveness to pursue additional graduate degrees (PhD, MD) or to prepare students for careers in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and related industries.

Graduate students in the Rubenstein School work closely with faculty who are dedicated to applied environmental research in service of society and have very active research programs. Faculty take an integrated approach to their research projects, work with other faculty teams in the School, and collaborate nationally and internationally with other researchers. The School has more than 40 graduate faculty members.

Many Rubenstein School graduate students do a general natural resources master’s program outside the concentration model, although we encourage students to focus in one of the following concentrations for greater marketability of their degree:

• Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science
• Environment, Society and Public Affairs
• Environmental Thought and Culture
• Forest and Wildlife Sciences

Dual Degree Program with Vermont Law and graduate school

The Master of Environmental Law and Policy (MELP)/Master of Science in Natural Resources (MSNR) Dual Degree Program offered by Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Law Center and the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources gives students an opportunity to deepen their graduate education by integrating significant aspects of the complementary disciplines of environmental law, policy, and science. Each school applies its own grading system to students in the program. Students must be in good academic standing at both schools to remain in the program. Each school issues its own transcript.

The program encompasses the following areas of neuroscience: Molecular and Cellular; Developmental, Plasticity, and Repair; Behavioral, Cognitive, and Systems; Human Neurobiology. The NGP is designed to create a dynamic graduate education environment that leverages the diversity of neuroscience research at the University of Vermont. The strong curriculum and research environment and the excellent students that they allow us to attract, results in a low attrition rate, good student productivity, relatively short time to degree, and success in placing graduates in competitive post-doctoral programs.

The University of Vermont’s Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration (HESA) graduate program is among the top programs in the country preparing student affairs professionals to collaboratively transform higher education.

We welcome full-time and part-time students with various levels of experience and backgrounds. We enroll a relatively small cohort each year to promote strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners. Committed to the future of the nation’s higher education system, we challenge students to make their graduate education an unparalleled learning experience.

The Department of History offers a comprehensive program of courses in the history of the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in global and comparative studies. At the graduate level, students develop broad historical knowledge and acquire training in historical interpretation and methods. Students may pursue the M.A. on either a part-time or full-time basis.

The department maintains a small, selective graduate program leading to the master’s degree in history. Faculty are distinguished both as active scholars and as engaged teachers, and this graduate program is based on close mentoring relationships between faculty and graduate students. The department aims to keep the program at a size that best supports students’ individual curricular and career goals: approximately 10-12 students are admitted each year.

The goal of the Doctor of Philosophy in Interprofessional Health Sciences degree program is to promote interprofessional research across fields and in the biomedical and psychosocial domains relevant to the health sciences. Students will understand, create, and undertake interprofessional, hypothesis-driven approaches to research and promote the translation of findings into practice.