Forms, Guidelines, and Policy

Graduate School Handbook

The Graduate School Handbook is the most comprehensive collection of rules and policies pertaining to graduate students, graduate faculty, and graduate programs. The handbook is updated regularly based upon decisions made by the Graduate Council. When updates are made, the handbook is labeled with a new version number.

Publications

Graduate School Handbook

Graduate School Newsletter - current

Graduate School Newsletters - archive

Fellowship Announcement

Graduate Study at Ohio State - brochure

Do Something Great - brochure

Forms

Frequently used forms, and a list of guidelines and publications (listed alphabetically)

Forms, guidelines and publications (listed by area/process)

Guidelines

The Graduate School provides guidelines and FAQs for new policies, regular graduate program practices (such as recruitment), and for graduate studies committee chairs. These are made available through OSUToday, OSUWeekly, direct email to the programs, and the Graduate School newsletter.

• Guidelines, graduate minors and interdisciplinary specializations
• Guidelines for Graduate Studies Committee Chairs
• Guidelines, specializations and transcript designations
• Graduate Supplemental Fellowship Job Code (4974)
• Best Practices in Recruitment
• Others

Policy (new and recently changed only)

• Post-candidacy registration requirements
• Continuous enrollment
• Minimum stipend for graduate students (New)
• Conditional Admission-English Proficiency (New)
• Student Employment Policy (Office of Human Resources, 1/1/2012)