IN 1962, Salisbury University launched its first graduate program. Since then, SU’s graduate offerings have grown to include 15 master’s and two doctoral programs. More than half a century since that first program was approved, they now have a new home with the establishment of the Graduate School at SU.
“The creation of the Graduate School at SU aims to not only enhance our initiatives in expanding graduate enrollment, but to also elevate our rankings and reinforce our institutional identity,” said SU President Carolyn Ringer Lepre. “Reinforcing our commitment to graduate education through the creation of a formalized graduate school will open doors to new opportunities for progress and provide our graduate students with a heightened sense of pride and belonging within the SU community.”
SU’s graduate programs have received high praise from publications like U.S. News & World Report, which consistently has named SU’s online M.B.A. and graduate nursing programs among the nation’s best. Additional master’s programs at SU include an applied biology, conflict analysis and dispute resolution, curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, English, GIS management, health and human performance, history, mathematics education, reading specialist, social work, and teaching, and a new program in public communication launches this fall (read more to the right). Doctoral programs at SU include the Doctor of Nursing Practice and an online Ed.D. in literacy studies.
“This new school is built on the hard work and research of our faculty, our students and our alumni who have risen to the challenge of completing an advanced degree – something fewer than 15% of Americans have done,” said Dr. Clifton Griffin, founding dean of the Graduate School at SU. “We look forward to doing our part to increase that number in the future.”
“… A formalized graduate school will open doors to new opportunities for progress …”