About Us

About Us
Thompson Hall home of the Graduate School

From the day you arrive at UNH to pursue your advanced degree, you’ll be immersed in a supportive, diverse, research-rich environment in a beautiful part of New England, collaborating with some of the world’s brightest and most respected minds.

The Graduate School oversees all graduate programs, including intercollegiate programs involving faculty and coursework from multiple schools or colleges. Intercollegiate programs give students the opportunity to pursue new and emerging fields of study that draw on multiple disciplines, leading to solid disciplinary foundations and the cross-disciplinary skills needed to find new social and scientific solutions.

Students and Faculty

Our graduate students play key roles in major, cutting-edge research, working side-by-side with renowned faculty and diverse students from around the world. Come visit our campus, chat with our faculty and graduate students and explore UNH's unique location and opportunities.

 

  • UNH English Professor Kabria Baumgartner
    UNH faculty are once again being recognized at the national level for scholarship that is changing the way we think and teach about race, gender and equity. The news magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education recently named UNH English professor Kabria Baumgartner part of its 2020 cohort of Emerging Scholars — a distinction awarded to just 15 professors across the country for…
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  • UNH Graduate Student Jesse Ross
    New Hampshire Sea Grant is pleased to announce that University of New Hampshire (UNH) graduate student, Jesse Ross, has been named a finalist for the 2020 class of the National Sea Grant College Program’s prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
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  • Alley Leach and Jenn Andrews
    Jennifer Andrews ’02, ’08G and Allison Leach ’18G of the UNH Sustainability Institute (UNHSI) have been named the 2019 J. Brent Loy Innovators of the Year. Andrews, sustainability project director, and Leach, a postdoctoral researcher, developed and commercialized SIMAP (Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform), a carbon and nitrogen-accounting platform used by more than 500 colleges and universities internationally to track, analyze and improve their sustainability. The honor was announced at the annual Innovators Dinner on Oct. 10.
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UNH's Discipline-Specific Colleges

UNH is one of a handful of the nation's land-, sea-, and space-grant research universities. We receive significant research funding from land-, sea-, and space-grant programs for our research, such as grants from NASA, Ford Motors, NOAA, and many other public and private organizations. This funding helps power the research and scholarship of the graduate school's academic units, divided by overarching subject:

  • College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS)
  • College of Liberal Arts (COLA)
  • College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA)
  • College of Health and Human Services (CHHS)
  • Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics (Paul College)
  • School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering (MSOE)
  • Carsey School of Public Policy (CSPP)
  • University of New Hampshire Manchester
  • University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord
  • UNH Online
  • The Graduate School (oversees all interdisciplinary study and intercollegiate programs)
Students explain their research projects to attendees and judges at the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering symposium

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Marine Science Oysters

School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering

School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering

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Athletic Training students work student athletes in the UNH Field house

College of Health & Human Services

College of Health & Human Services

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students dancing on stage

College of Liberal Arts

College of Liberal Arts

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Student assists a professor in a lab

College of Life Sciences & Agriculture

College of Life Sciences & Agriculture

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Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

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UNH Manchester

UNH Manchester

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Students in a court room

UNH School of Law

UNH School of Law

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Students discussing public policy

Carsey School of Public Policy

Carsey School of Public Policy

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