DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

The Environment

Washington University and the city of St. Louis offer graduate students an abundant cultural and learning environment.  Faculty members of the Education Department urge doctoral students to take full advantage of both during the period of residence.  The university makes efforts to assist students in reaching across departmental and program boundaries when it seems appropriate and in the student's best intellectual interests.  In addition to exploring the Department of Education, the student is urged to seek out informational, intellectual, social, and cultural activities in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and in other professional schools on campus.  The university offers an active Graduate Student Council and Graduate Student Senate that serve as advocacy and governing groups for graduate students and work with other campus organizations to enrich campus life.  The city of St. Louis is easily accessible, and offers numerous opportunities to explore cultural, social, and athletic interests in its museums, zoo, neighborhoods, parks, and other cultural institutions.  The years spent in doctoral study can be among the most meaningful in a student's intellectual life.  The Department encourages doctoral students to take full advantage of the opportunities open to them at this time.

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