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Thank you for your interest in one of the several graduate programs at
Villanova University. In this Web site, we have attempted to provide the
information that is most requested by interested students. However, this
information is surely incomplete in some regards, and we urge you to contact the
individual departments or programs for more information. Alternately, you can
contact the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies directly, and that office
will be able to answer your inquiries or will put you in touch with particular
program directors. Please do not hesitate to request additional information. We
appreciate the fact that you are contemplating a serious personal decision
regarding your further education and eventual career, and we will do all that we
realistically can to help you in making the right decision.
Let me take the opportunity to make a few general remarks about the
University and the graduate programs in particular at Villanova. (You can obtain
specific information from the individual programs themselves.) As described in
the University's Mission Statement:
| "Villanova University is an independent coeducational
institution of higher learning founded by the Augustinian Order
of the Roman Catholic Church. The University is a community of
persons of diverse professional, academic and personal interests
who, in a spirit of collegiality, cooperate to achieve their
common goals and objectives in the transmission, the pursuit and
the discovery of knowledge. This community serves society by
developing and sustaining an academic environment in which the
potentialities of its members may be realized. Villanova is
committed to those same high goals and standards of academic
integrity and excellence as well as personal and corporate
achievement that characterize all worthy institutions of higher
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The goal of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Villanova University is to provide its students with a liberal
education - - an education laying emphasis upon the training of the critical
faculty, cultivation of a wide breadth of learning, and development of the
student's wholeness as an individual. In keeping with the centuries-old
educational traditions of the Order of St. Augustine which involve the search
for truth and the integration of all branches of knowledge, the graduate
programs at Villanova have several specific aims:
- To extend and deepen knowledge by scholarly research,
- To assist those who wish to secure specialized training in order to
improve their occupational competency,
- To address the need for advanced training for special purposes,
especially in the fields of teaching and other human services, and
- To offer the graduate student the opportunity to join with the faculty
of the University in the common pursuit of learning wherein the students are
encouraged to develop according to their individual capacities and to learn
to live and work together in a community of scholars.
Please examine the materials provided on this web site for further
information about Villanova University and its graduate programs. We at the
University welcome your interest and encourage you to consider our programs
carefully. If you need any additional information, do not hesitate to contact
the individual programs directly, or contact the Office of Graduate Studies in
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the address shown below.
Again, thank you for your interest -- and good luck.
Sincerely,
Gerald M. Long, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Dean of Graduate Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
You can obtain additional information about our
programs online
through our online form
or by email, fax or write us at the address listed below.
Mailing Address:
800 Lancaster Avenue Graduate Studies Office Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085 Telephone: (610) 519-7090 Fax: (610) 519-7096 Email:
gradinformation@villanova.edu
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