Graduate Handbook and Degree Requirements

The graduate handbook provides an essential guide for all our graduate students, with useful information about a variety of issue, ranging from orientation to degree requirements. Our graduate handbook describes the graduate degree program in detail, including a guide to your arrival at Penn State (with additional orientational information for international students), sample course sequences, course descriptions, degree requirements, and teaching assistantships.

We are currently updating this handbook. The main changes are in section 3, as they relate to changes to the qualifying exam and qualifying process. Please contact the chair of the qual program change committee, Prof. Jorge Sofo (sofo@psu.edu), if you have questions about these changes.