Office of
Graduate Studies
Your high-quality, flexible and convenient education
Our graduate students benefit from flexible, convenient—and often completely online—courses taught by faculty whose commitment to teaching, to research and to other professional activities results in national recognition. Faculty guidance strengthens students’ academic and professional ability by increasing your subject knowledge, improving your capacity for independent study, familiarizing you with the research in your field and training you to conduct meaningful research of your own.
Your service to the community
Our programs also make significant contributions to our communities. Students, as a result of their intense, concentrated study at WCSU, are well-prepared to enter society as trained professionals and specialists, and as thoughtful, sensitive human beings with personal integrity and an appreciation of intellectual and political freedom.
Your professional skills development
Our students develop in professional in-service and pre-service programs through cooperative efforts with regional businesses, industry, government, social service and educational agencies. WCSU’s faculty and programs are dedicated to forging and maintaining such ties through the ongoing assessment of regional needs and continual interaction with community, business, professional and academic organizations.
Graduate Assistantships
Graduate Assistantships provide on-campus, extracurricular, hands-on learning experiences and stipends to graduate students.
Assistantships are not scholarships (which are awarded independently of any expectation of corresponding activity), and they are not work/study appointments (which provide hourly wages for usually non-educational work).
Accreditations
Western Connecticut State University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. Inquiries regarding the accreditation status by the New England Commission should be directed to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact the New England Commission of Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drives, Suite 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4531; (781) 425-7785; info@neche.orgcreate new email. In addition, the university is accredited by the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education.
Director
(203) 837-9005
Mary Champion
SECRETARY
(203) 837-8243
Office of
Graduate Admissions
Danbury, CT 06810