Our Mission
For more than four decades, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has been the national voice for the graduate dean community. CGS is the only national organization in the United States that is dedicated solely to the advancement of graduate education and research. Our mission is to advance graduate education in order to ensure the vitality of intellectual discovery and to promote an environment that cultivates rigorous scholarship.
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Our Members
CGS draws its institutional membership from colleges and universities significantly engaged in graduate education, research, and scholarship culminating in the award of the master's or doctoral degree. Currently, CGS membership includes over 500 universities in the United States and Canada, and 16 universities outside North America. Collectively, CGS institutions annually award more than 95 percent of all U.S. doctorates and over 78 percent of all U.S. master's degrees.
Research and Advocacy in the Public Policy Arena
CGS serves as a national clearinghouse for information and research on graduate programs by providing original research, white papers, testimony and legislative analyses to key stakeholders, Congress, federal agencies and the media. CGS coordinates its activities with other national educational organizations to ensure that graduate education is well represented within the larger higher education community.
Best Practices Initiatives
CGS serves the graduate community by focusing on important issues affecting all aspects of graduate education and offering recommendations and proven solutions to address these issues. These initiatives include Ph.D. Completion; Professional Master's Degrees; Responsible Conduct of Research and Entrepreneurship.