The Graduate College stands on Our Common Ground – our shared values of respect, integrity, innovation, openness, justice, and responsibility. We invite our graduate education community to articulate these values through a student-centered lens.

Anchored in Our Common Ground, the Graduate College is committed to graduate education that is inclusive, student-centric, data- informed, broadly purposed, and outcomes-focused. As a graduate education community, we embrace collaboration, compassion, equity, diversity, and inclusion, courageous and responsible leadership, and accountability as foundations of excellence.

UVM is the university for diverse graduate students and postdoctoral scholars committed to a thriving future for people and planet.

The Graduate College is a vibrant hub and effective advocate for high-quality, student-centric graduate education and for a superb postdoctoral experience.

Through their discoveries, creativity, and action, our students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and alumni lead change for a more just, healthier, and regenerative world.

The Graduate College serves UVM’s graduate education and postdoctoral communities as an intellectual and resource hub, champion, and advocate.

In partnership with academic units and faculty, we promote excellence, innovation, and growth in graduate and postdoctoral studies. 

We provide thought leadership and central expertise and collaborate to offer seamless services for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and their faculty.

We articulate and champion the value of graduate education for individuals, communities, and societies, as our diverse trainees prepare for a comprehensive range of careers and lives of meaning and consequence.

By educating versatile scholar-leaders who advance knowledge, drive innovation, and generate creative solutions to complex problems, we enhance UVM’s strengths and reputation in research and student success and advance its land-grant mission.