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 Studies, Comparative 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:
- Biomedical Sciences
- Ecological Sciences & Engineering
- Information Security
- Life Sciences
- Philosophy and Literature
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:
- African American Studies
- Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
- Food Science
- Ingestive Behavior
- Nutrition
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Admit to Independent Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Applications to the Independent Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (I-IGP) should be submitted through the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs and will be considered by the I-IGP Admissions Committee under the direction of the Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Students must be admitted by a department before consideration by the I-IGP Admissions Committee.
Gerontology Program Dual Title
The Gerontology Program has a “dual title degree” program in which students complete requirements for one program and additional requirements for the Gerontology Program. Both programs appear on the transcript.
