Cooperative & Special Degree Programs
CIC Doctoral Traveling Scholar Program
Doctoral students may enroll for short-term study or research on the campus of another participating institution, through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). All Big Ten universities and The University of Chicago are included in this program. It enables you to take advantage of special resources on another campus that are not available at UWM, such as special course offerings, research opportunities, unique laboratories, and library collections.
Your graduate advisor recommends you as a CIC Traveling Scholar and makes tentative visiting arrangements for you with an appropriate faculty member of the host institution. The graduate deans at both institutions must approve the arrangements. UWM applications are processed through Graduate Student Services. Contact Patricia Hayes for more information, at 229-6263 or hayes@uwm.edu.
Multidisciplinary Committee-Directed Ph.D.
The multidisciplinary committee-directed Ph.D. program is designed to meet the needs of select, highly qualified doctoral students with unique needs and interests that cannot be met by a single existing program. The program crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and opens new areas of instruction and research.
If you are considering this option, understand that although you must comply with all general Graduate School requirements for the Ph.D., your specific program of coursework, independent study, and research will be highly individualistic. Throughout the degree program, you must work very closely with your entire supervisory committee. This committee helps you select courses and activities designed to meet your goals, examines your progress at various phases (e.g., preliminary examination, dissertation proposal hearing), and assumes all the responsibilities of a department or program faculty in a conventional program. For more information, contact Patricia Hayes in Graduate Student Services at 229-6263 or hayes@uwm.edu.
UWM/Medical College of Wisconsin Joint Graduate Studies Program
The UWM Graduate School and the Medical College of Wisconsin each have accredited M.S. and Ph.D. programs. Both institutions have entered into an agreement permitting students to take courses and use the library and laboratory facilities at both schools. This formal affiliation affords unique opportunities to the institutions' faculties and students. Little duplication exists between the graduate degree programs of the two schools. Using the resources of both institutions results in programs that strengthen the educational missions of the two schools.
Approval must be granted by both institutions before you may participate in this program. For more information about the procedures for participation, contact Patricia Hayes in Graduate Student Services at 229-6263 or hayes@uwm.edu.
Marquette University/UWM Cooperative Graduate Student Exchange Program
This exchange program enables graduate students to take courses that are not offered at their home institution without transferring and without any increase in tuition. Both institutions seek to help degree-seeking graduate students obtain appropriate coursework.
Approval must be granted by both institutions before you may participate in this program. For more information about the procedures for participation, contact Patricia Hayes in Graduate Student Services at 229-6263 or hayes@uwm.edu.
Minnesota/Wisconsin Reciprocity Agreement
If you're a Minnesota resident, the tuition reciprocity agreement allows you to avoid non-resident tuition at UWM. Under the program, graduate students pay whichever state's resident tuition rate is higher.
Applicants are asked to apply electronically. You can also contact the Minnesota Office of Higher Education at 800-657-3866 or write to Reciprocity, Office of Higher Education, 1450 Energy Park Drive, Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55108.
You may also contact the UWM Office of the Registrar at (414) 229-3796. A certification year runs from July 1 through June 30.
If you are not certified by the date fees are due, you must pay non-resident tuition and fees; the appropriate amount will be refunded upon certification by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.