Welcome Graduate Students
Dean Susan Koch
I’m delighted to welcome you to UNI!
It is the role of graduate education to explore and advance the limits of knowledge and to define the state-of-the-art in every field. Its purpose is to not only serve society’s needs for professional advancement and credentialing, but also to serve the need for intellectual expansion and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Graduate education in the United States and other countries is the major source for future intellectual leaders of schools, businesses, governments, organizations, and society. You are one of those future leaders -- one of a small select number of people in the world today who have an opportunity to participate in graduate education.
Our mission is to provide you with an outstanding experience of advanced study, research and creative activity that is grounded in a personalized and diverse graduate community and that will prepare you to be a successful practitioner, scholar, and professional leader.
You will have outstanding graduate faculty who will advise and mentor you along the way. Please make an effort to get to know them.
You will meet students with whom you can collaborate in your studies and who could become some of your best lifelong friends. Please make an effort to be part of our graduate community with the many opportunities available to do so.
You will be exposed to greater depths of knowledge, difficult intellectual challenges, and new ideas. Please engage as fully as you can.
Welcome and best wishes for a great year!
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UNI Graduate Student Facts
- There are almost 1,500 graduate students at UNI, making up about 12% of the UNI student population.
- 66% are female
- 78% are Iowa residents
- 10% are from out of state
- 12% are international students, including students from China, Russia, India, Japan, Mexico, Zimbabwe, and many other countries
- By the time you graduate you will be one of about 14,000 UNI graduate alums who work all over the world.
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Did You Know?
For the 10th consecutive year, UNI is ranked second in the "Midwestern Universities -- Master's" category for public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2007 "America's Best Colleges" guidebook.
The Doctor of Industrial Technology (DIT) degree, the only one of its kind in the world, is designed to develop scholars in the fields of education and industry. In its 26 years, the DIT program has graduated 86 students.
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The Graduate College is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Douglas Mupasiri, Associate Professor of Mathematics, to a temporary part-time assignment in the Graduate College as Coordinator of Graduate Recruitment and Retention. Find out more about Dr. Mupasiri.
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Got Ideas?
If you have any ideas or submissions for the Graffito online newsletter, please send them to Christine at clb29@uni.edu.
If you have any ideas for graduate networking or social activities, please contact Katie at kkukor@uni.edu.
The New Graduate Student Orientation on August 24 provided new and returning students an opportunity to learn more about student services offered at UNI, as well as listen to a panel discussion of second year graduate students. 
The UNI Graduate College established the Inspiration Awards to be awarded on an occasional basis as deemed appropriate to graduate students who have successfully overcome extraordinary challenges and/or hardships while pursuing graduate study at UNI.