Section One
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, REQUIREMENTS AND POLICIES

This section includes:

PROGRAMS OF INSTRUCTION

Programs of instruction in the University are organized primarily in seven schools. Each school is administered by a dean and staff, usually including an associate dean who develops and oversees the implementation of the school's policies relating to graduate education. Deans of schools are responsible, both academically and administratively, to the Provost. The Schools of Earth Sciences, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, and Medicine are organized into departments and programs, the chairs of which are responsible to their respective deans. The Graduate School of Business, the School of Education, and the School of Law are monolithic in structure. For information about the programs offered by each of the schools, consult the current issue of the Stanford Bulletin or the bulletins of the Schools of Law, Business, or Medicine.

Some of Stanford's most distinguished research programs are based in centers and laboratories that do not offer degree programs themselves and are independent from schools. However, many Stanford faculty members are affiliated with them, and advanced graduate students sometimes have an opportunity to participate in their research programs or make use of their facilities. Consult your faculty adviser about the possibilities. Stanford's independent centers and laboratories include:

• Stanford Center for Economic Policy Research
• Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory
• Global Climate and Energy Project
• Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
• Stanford Humanities Center
• W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory
• Woods Institute for the Environment

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GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Admission to Graduate Study

Graduate Admissions Office
630 Serra Street
723-4291
http://gradadmissions.stanford.edu/

Admission is offered for a specific academic program and enrollment quarter, and may be conditional upon fulfilling requirements such as submission of official transcripts or official test scores. Students are responsible for fulfilling these requirements in a timely fashion. If required, transcripts showing the completion of the bachelor's degree, or an equivalent foreign degree, must be submitted to the Graduate Admissions Office before enrollment and no later than the end of the first quarter of graduate study. Enrollment privileges are contingent upon fulfillment of all conditions of admission.

Questions concerning conditions of admission should be directed to the Graduate Admissions Office, which is the only office empowered to act upon such conditions.

English Language Requirements for Foreign Students

English for Foreign Students Office
Building 30, Room 106
723-3636

The Stanford English Placement Test is administered by the English for Foreign Students Office. It assesses the ability to understand, speak, and write American English, with particular emphasis on active speaking and writing. Results are evaluated in terms of the student's academic program at Stanford and the University's requirements for that program. Depending on the results of the test, students may be required to take appropriate courses in English at the beginning of their academic work. Admission remains conditional until such specified coursework is satisfactorily completed. Completion of a degree program may be lengthened if English courses are required.

Before beginning a teaching assistantship appointment, students whose native language is not English will be tested for oral communication by the English for Foreign Students staff. A special English course for teaching assistants may be required of students who, as a result of this additional test, are considered to need preparatory work. Teaching assistantship appointments are approved only upon verification of a satisfactory level of English proficiency from the English for Foreign Students Office.

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