The
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GRS)
is committed to the advancement of knowledge
through research, scholarship, and publication,
and the preparation of future researchers,
scholars, and college and university teachers.
The School offers a broad range of M.A.
and Ph.D. programs in nearly 50 fields
of the humanities, natural and social sciences,
computer and mathematical sciences, theology,
and music.
Welcome
From the Associate
Dean of the Graduate School
GRS at a Glance
 Graduate
enrollment, Fall 2004: 1,967
 The
faculty of the Graduate School
includes all members of the faculty
of the College of Arts and Sciences,
faculty from the School of Theology
(in the Division of Religious and Theological
Studies), faculty from the Music Division
in the School for the Arts, faculty
from the College of Engineering (in
the Bioinformatics Program), and faculty
from other BU Schools and Colleges
appointed in specific programs.
 Boston
University’s first graduate degrees were
granted in 1877: the M.A. to Isaac
Newton Lewis and the Ph.D. to James
Barclay Hall and Helen Magill (later
Mrs. Andrew Dickson White, diplomat,
scholar, and first president of Cornell
University).
 Boston
University, through GRS, was
the first university in America to
confer the Ph.D. on a woman.
GRS
students pursue degrees in
nearly 50 major fields.
GRS Administrative
Contacts
Dean of Arts and Sciences: Virginia
Sapiro
Associate Dean of the Graduate School: J.
Scott Whitaker
Admissions: Patricia
Schiavoni
Financial Aid: Janette
Countryman
Student Records: Martha
Khan
Complete
Arts and Sciences Administrative Directory
Boston University
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
705 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 112
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-2696
grs@bu.edu
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