Introduction

Overview

Arts, Sciences & Engineering (AS&E) at the University of Rochester comprises the School of Arts & Sciences and the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. We offer both the intellectual excitement of a major research university and the intimacy and opportunities of a great liberal arts college. Graduate training provided by the departments and programs of Arts, Sciences & Engineering accounts for more than 60 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded by the University.

The University of Rochester emphasizes individualized study that allows students to create an educational experience harnessing, Rochester’s unique facilities, nationally ranked faculty, and superb research infrastructure. We believe that graduate education should feature rigorous academic study, cutting-edge research, and relevant professional development. In all aspects of campus life, we nurture educational excellence, advance the professional and personal growth of our students, and value diversity and social responsibility.

The University of Rochester will continue to frame and solve the greatest challenges of the future. We are a community in which all who work, teach, create, and provide care are welcome and respected and where all can pursue and achieve their highest objectives for themselves, their communities, and the world. Steeped in Rochester’s rich history of social justice and entrepreneurial spirit, we will always be an inclusive, equitable, sustainable, and responsive organization at every level.

As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora—ever better. Embedded in that ideal are the values that we share:

Meliora: We strive to be ever better, for everyone.
Equity: We commit to diversity, inclusion, and access.
Leadership: We take initiative and share responsibility for exemplifying excellence.
Integrity: We conduct ourselves with honesty, dedication, and fairness.
Openness: We embrace freedom of ideas, inquiry, and expression.
Respect: We value our differences, our environment, and our individual and collective contributions.
Accountability: We are each responsible for making our community ever better, through our actions, our words, and our dealings with others.

We will hold ourselves accountable to these values in the design of our programs, the development and delivery of our services, the evaluation of performance, and in the ways in which we interact as a community.

The information collected within this document applies to graduate students in Arts, Sciences & Engineering at the University of Rochester. For additional policies and procedures that govern all graduate students at the University of Rochester please review the Graduate Bulletin and regulations and University policies.

Students should discuss departmental or program-specific policies with their program director of graduate studies (DGS) or graduate coordinator. Students should be aware of and comply with all University, AS&E, and departmental policies governing their program.