Admissions Models

The following are the main Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) organizational models for admissions.

Admit and Confer Degree

The first model admits students to a specific program and confers the degree much like a department, but is not structured like a department. These programs are housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The three programs that participate in this model are American StudiesComparative Literature, and Linguistics 

Admitted to Program and Graduate from Associated Department

The second model are concentrations that admit students to the program directly, but the students eventually graduate from the associated graduate department of the major professor. Degrees at Purdue are awarded only by programs which are approved by the Indiana Commission on Higher Education, which does not include these concentrations.  Programs which admit students directly, but then have students graduate from the associated graduate department include:

Administered as Concentration

The third model may review and recommend admission, but students must be already admitted by a department. Students have a concentration added to their transcript upon completing the requirements set by the program. They may or may not be required to complete the requirements of their home department in addition to the IGP requirements.  These concentrations include:

 

Dual Title

 Gerontology and Cancer Research are our “dual title PhD degree” programs in which students complete all degree requirements for the discipline-based PhD program with the dual title.  The Dual Title option requires additional requirements for each of the Programs, often without extending the time to degree. Both the discipline and program appear on the transcript. 

 

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