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The program involves research courses, reading groups, tutorial supervision, international workshops, and intensive short courses. Every candidate is supervised by a team of academic instructors and has the opportunity to spend a semester or year at one of the School’s international partner institutions. Each year, up to five to eight doctoral students are accepted into the School.

Each student has a dissertation committee composed of two faculty members. The student, the dissertation committee, and the Graduate School’s academic director reach a written agreement about how supervision and training of the student will proceed.

A mentor is assigned to each student. The mentor, who shall not be a member of the dissertation committee, provides an independent source of advice on intellectual as well as personal and professional development.

Many sources of funding are available to cover living expenses for accepted graduate students. There are no tuition fees.

Transition Program (“Pre-doc”)

This program is for students who are generally excellent and promising, but lack some crucial qualification for dissertation work in the Graduate School (e.g., language skills or background in philosophy). The program prepares these students to enter the regular doctoral program described above.

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