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Graduate Studies

Advance your education at UMass Dartmouth

UMass Dartmouth’s graduate programs give you the opportunity to build new skills, deepen your knowledge, and open doors in your field. Start by choosing the path that best supports your goals.

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Questions about applying to a graduate program at UMass Dartmouth?

Our Graduate Admissions team can help with applications, deadlines, required materials, and the admissions process. Schedule a 1-on-1 meeting or join an upcoming virtual information session to learn more about programs, the admissions process, and how we can support your goals.

Wednesday, April 29 at 12:00PM
Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session
Thursday, May 7 at 12:00PM
College of Engineering Graduate Program Virtual Information Session
Thursday, May 14 at 10:00AM
International Student Webinar
Friday, June 5 at 9:30AM
International Student Webinar
Thursday, June 11 at 12:00PM
College of Engineering Graduate Program Virtual Information Session
Thursday, June 18 at 10:00AM
Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session
UMassD aerial view of the campus
Graduate student, Ronni Mak, conducting research in Professor Miles Sundermeyer's lab

Graduate admissions & academic resources

Find everything you need to prepare for graduate study at UMass Dartmouth—from application steps to tuition details, course information, and financial support.

Important dates: UMass Dartmouth makes admissions decisions for graduate students on a rolling basis. Programs may close once they reach capacity.

Tuition & fees: Tuition and fees information for graduate students.

Funding your education: Discover assistantships, fellowships, loans, and other funding opportunities available to UMass Dartmouth graduate students.

Course listings: Browse courses offered at UMassD.

Graduate catalog: The official source of information about the University’s graduate academic programs (excluding law), approved courses, and academic policies.

Graduate admissions requirements: University requirements for graduate admissions.

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UMass Dartmouth at a glance

Dr. Mark A. Fuller, Chancellor of UMass Dartmouth, shares some of the many ways UMassD can launch you into lifelong success with a graduate degree.

    

2,237

Graduate/Law enrollment

$83K

Average salary for graduate alumni, class of 2024

35

Graduate countries represented

$42.4M

Research activity

Graduate school news & events

Stay up to date on the latest achievements, rankings, research, and milestones from UMass Dartmouth’s graduate programs. Explore how our students, alumni, and faculty are advancing their fields and strengthening our academic community.

Best Business Schools for Management 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Charlton College of Business named a best MBA for Management
Charlton's MBA ranks second-highest among Massachusetts publics for management
Best Graduate Schools for Fine Arts 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
College of Visual & Performing Arts ranks among top 60 MFA programs in the U.S.
U.S. News & World Report ranks CVPA MFA programs among top 29% in the nation
Best Business Schools for Supply Chain Management 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Charlton College of Business named a top 60 MBA for Supply Chain Management
Charlton is the top-ranked public MBA in New England for Supply Chain Management
Best Business Schools for Marketing 2026 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Charlton College of Business named a best MBA for Marketing
Charlton ranked a top 70 public MBA for Marketing
Apr
17
2:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jaime Cathers
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jaime Cathers
Apr
17
2:00PM
ELEE Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy by Jin Feng Lin
ELEE Oral Comprehensive Exam for Doctoral Candidacy - ECE
Apr
17
4:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Yaa Brago
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Yaa Brago
Apr
21
12:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Kimberly Lester
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Kimberly Lester
Apr
21
3:30PM
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense by Angel Rose Thomas
Single-Particle Investigation of Plasmon-coupled Circular Dichroism and Chiral Plexcitons
Apr
22
10:00AM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Oyenike Ogunmekan, PMHN
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Oyenike Ogunmekan, PMHN
Apr
22
1:30PM
Bridging High-Dimensional Robust Statistics and Non-Convex Optimization
Talk by Dr. Yu Cheng (Assistant Professor @Brown CS)
Apr
22
2:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Michelle Martinis, MSN,RN,AGACNP-BC, CWCN-AP
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Michelle Martinis, MSN,RN,AGACNP-BC, CWCN-AP
Apr
22
12:00PM
SMAST Seminar DEOS/DFO Alumni Takeover
The Marine Science Students Association (MaSSA) is hosting the first Alumni Seminar Takeover!
Apr
22
3:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Stephanie Bettencourt
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Stephanie Bettencourt
Apr
22
3:00PM
GSS Research Seminar
Graduate Student Senate is hosting a seminar as part of Research Celebration Week.
Apr
23
12:00PM
Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Raksha Mohan
Data Science MS Thesis Defense
Apr
24
10:00AM
PhD Dissertation Defense by Aneeka Ehsan Cheema
On White Privilege: Arts in Education in Postcolonial Pakistan by Aneeka Ehsan Cheema
Apr
24
3:00PM
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Portia Adjei Donker
College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Portia Adjei Donker
Apr
27
1:30PM
"Handling uncertainty in fisheries management: Developing tools in support of Management Strategy Evaluation" presented by Amanda R. Hart
DFO PhD Dissertation Defense presented by Amanda R. Hart
Apr
27
2:00PM
Unsupervised Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection for Storm Formation Using Onboard Time-Series Data  
CIS Master’s Thesis Defense by Snehashish Srivastava
Apr
28
1:30PM
EAS Doctoral Proposal Defense by Vrutant Vikasbhai Mehta
The Astrophysics of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Merger Type Ia Supernovae
Apr
29
10:30AM
Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri
Evaluating the impact of data drift on deep learning models for bitcoin price forecasting
Apr
29
10:30AM
"Evaluating the Impact of Data Drift on Deep Learning Models for Bitcoin Price Forecasting"
Data Science MS Thesis Defense by Adithi Madduluri
Apr
29
12:00PM
Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session
Apr
29
1:00PM
ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud
ELEE Research Component of PhD Qualifier Exam by Temegni Ulrich Bertaud
Apr
30
1:00PM
DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: Beyond the observer's gaze
DFO PhD Dissertation Defense: "Beyond the observer's gaze: an integrated approach to detection, estimation, and mitigation of observer and deployment effects in fisheries monitoring" presented by Debra Duarte.
May
1
10:00AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Immer Mowry Cook
Found and Made: Ceramics in Integrated Compositional Systems
May
1
11:00AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by Yaren Yildiz
Layering, Pressure, and Density as Material Strategies for Articulating the Body as Visceral
May
1
11:15AM
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by: Allison Morones
Wild Cactus: an original puppet show about the American southwest
May
1
12:00PM
"Optical Characterization of Particle Size Distributions and Their Relationship to Phytoplankton Pigment Composition in the Northern Gulf of Mexico" by Kara Falvey
DEOS MS Thesis Defense by Kara Falvey
May
5
11:00AM
Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Systems Engineering MS Project Presentation by Myriam Iralien
Floating System for Microplastic Removal: Design and Feasibility Analysis
May
5
5:00PM
Thesis defense: "Designing for the Future"
Mackenzie Berlinguet MPWC Thesis project defense
May
5
5:00PM
O'Meara Thesis Defense: "Communication Strategies in Early Childhood Education"
Bridget O'Meara MPWC thesis defense presentation.
May
5
5:00PM
Carter Thesis Defense: "Accessibility Gaps & Overlaps in College-Level Writing Assignment Composition"
Tameron Carter MPWC Thesis defense.
May
6
10:30AM
EAS Doctoral Dissertation Defense by Guancheng Zhou
Towards Diagnosis, Fairness, and interpretation of Machine Learning Algorithms
May
6
1:30PM
Joint Data and Computational Science Seminar Series: Graph-theoretic properties of mitochondrial tubular networks
Talk by Professor Gary Davis of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
May
6
1:00PM
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Anudeep Davuluru
Quark Confinement from Generalized SU(3) and Holographic Models under Constraints
May
6
12:30PM
Melissa Cieto - STEM Education Dissertation Defense
Title: Stories of Synergy
May
6
2:45PM
Physics Master of Science Thesis Defense by Chackochan Joji
Pathway to Type Iax Supernovae: 3D Hydrodynamical Sim. of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs
May
7
10:00AM
Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Menaka Konara
Design, Fabrication, Experimental Study of Light-Actuated, Biocompatible, Multi-functional Microbots
May
6
11:53AM
Electrical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell
Thesis Defense by Brent Rubell
May
7
12:00PM
College of Engineering Graduate Program Virtual Information Session
May
8
10:00AM
DFO MS Thesis Defense: Sink or Source? by Andie Painten
DFO MS Thesis Defense "Sink or Source? The attraction versus production theory at an offshore wind farm using black sea bass as a case study" by Andie Painten
May
8
10:00AM
Mechanical Engineering / ISE MS Project Presentation by Mr. Sanath Kosuru Padmanabha Raju (Sanath K P)
Study Microstructure & Mechanical Properties TIG Weldments Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys...
May
8
12:00PM
Biology PhD Dissertation Defense by Carolina C. Ganci
Learning, Memory and Brain activation patterns in wild white-footed mice
May
13
11:00AM
BMEBT MS Thesis defense by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan
Evaluation of extracellular vesicles released by 3D spheroids and 2D conventional cell culture of the SKOV3 ovarian cancer cell line by Shrimathi Venugopalakrishnan
May
14
10:00AM
International Student Webinar
May
14
10:30AM
Stable and Compute-Resource Efficient Learning with Spiking and Quantum Neural Networks: Methods and Insights
CIS Master's Thesis Defense by Jacob Fronzaglia
May
14
10:00AM
Mechanical Engineering MS Project Presentation by Mr. Joshua Letizia
Research and Development of a Reengineering Plan for an Aluminum Extrusion Facilty
May
21
10:00AM
Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony I
Ceremony for SMAST, Engineering, & CCB
May
21
4:00PM
Doctoral Commencement Ceremony
All doctoral students from all schools and colleges (excluding Law students)
May
22
10:00AM
Undergraduate & Graduate Student Commencement Ceremony II
Ceremony for CVPA, CNHS, & CAS
Jun
5
9:30AM
International Student Webinar
Jun
11
12:00PM
College of Engineering Graduate Program Virtual Information Session
Jun
18
10:00AM
Charlton College of Business Virtual Information Session
Graduate Virtual Information Sessions University Event Calendar Academic Calendar

Stories from UMass Dartmouth graduate students

Discover how UMass Dartmouth graduate students turn their academic work into real opportunities. These features showcase research breakthroughs, hands-on learning, and career success across our master’s and doctoral programs.

Eman Khwaja standing on a boat with a whale surfacing in the background
Eman Khwaja ‘26: Diversifying STEM through whale TikToks
Integrative biology PhD student shares her humpback whale research on social media while completing National Science Foundation Fellowship
UMass Dartmouth alumnus Aditya Sahu, AI engineer at Amazon
Aditya Sahu MS '25: AI engineer at Amazon
Computer science alum starts career as an AI engineer at Amazon
SMAST PhD student Lindsay Graff in the field
Lindsay Graff PhD '27: Shark conservation research
SMAST PhD student shares what it's like to study sharks all over the world.
Kayla Alvares BSN MSN PhD smiling in front of a blue background
Kayla Alvares '19, MSN '22, PhD '25: A decade at UMassD
First-generation nursing student earns BSN, MSN, and PhD at UMass Dartmouth, spending 10 years as part of the campus community
Cybersecurity student Raquel Bush stands in the UMassD library
Raquel Ana Bush '25, '26: Mind and machine
CyberCorps SFS scholar Raquel Ana Bush prepares for a career in machine learning and cybersecurity.

Graduate student life

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