Center for Graduate Research and Education

Photo collage of four images of Villanova graduate students. From left to right: student smiling in Law Library; two students walking and conversing in Bartley Hall; student-researcher working with lab equipment; and two students posing for photo at Commencement.

Welcome to the Center for Graduate Research and Education (Grad Center)! Villanova's graduate student population is a sizable and diverse one, composed of more than 3,500 full-time, part-time, on-campus and online students.

Here in the Grad Center, we are committed to supporting the excellence of graduate education and our work is centered on enhancing the graduate and law student experience at Villanova.

OUR APPROACH

The Grad Center is a student-centered office dedicated to supporting and promoting all of Villanova’s graduate and law students. We provide a strategic, comprehensive, university-wide voice for graduate students and programs at Villanova, grounded in the University’s Augustinian identity, mission and values.

Understanding that graduate students enhance the undergraduate experience, the research enterprise and the Villanova community, we work to ensure that these relationships are reciprocal.

Meet Our Team

OUR COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY

Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s mission as a Catholic Augustinian institution of higher education. The Grad Center furthers this commitment by developing robust mechanisms and programs that cultivate a more inclusive and supportive graduate student culture—both on campus and online—and by fostering equity across the graduate student population.

Villanova University's Diversity Statement

Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion