Graduate School

Important Dates & Deadlines for Programs

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September 1 (estimated date) Online applications open in CollegeNET (PhD, MFA, BioMed Master's)
September 1 Fulbright Fellowship initial application deadline (internal) at 4:30 pm
September 8 Deadline for October graduates to submit the Application to Graduate via Banner
September 11-29 Fulbright campus interviews

October 1 Banner-based Application to Graduate open to students who expect to complete in February (Registrar's requirement)
October 1 Research Mobility Fellowship applications due for Spring travel
October 5-9 Graduate School at the Society for Neuroscience Conference
October 11 DAAD applications due at 4 pm (internal deadline)
October 15 Spring term Fellowship appointments and funding due to Graduate School via GSIM (doctoral and master's students). Non-Fellowship appointment (TA/RA/Proctor) entry deadline TBA
October 20-21 Fall Preview Day
October 31-November 3 Graduate School at the SACNAS Conference

November 1 Deadline for students on leave to notify the Graduate School of a desire to return in the spring and to submit materials for readmission
November 13-16 Graduate School at the ABRCMS Conference
November 16* Spring term bills generated (see Student Financial Services website)

December 1 Horace Mann medal submissions due in UFunds.
December 2 Application deadline for Brown Executive Scholars Training (BEST) Program

January 1 Spring term bill due date
January 10 Deadline for February graduates to submit the Application to Graduate via Banner
January 10 Thesis and dissertation submission deadline for February graduates
January 13 Banner-based Application to Graduate open to students who expect to complete in May (Registrar's requirement)
January 21 Deadline for entering Spring Progress Evaluation and uploading Standing Letters to GSIM
January TBA Recruitment Activities Summary submission deadline
January 31 Mae Williamson Simmons Fellowship nomination deadline
January 29-31 Graduate School at the McNair Promising Practices Institute and Graduate School Fair

February 1 Deadline for changing progress evaluations that have already been submitted for the Spring term
February 10 Open Graduate Education application deadline
February TBA Deadline for student applications for Deans' Faculty Fellowships
February TBA Application deadline for Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellowship
February TBA Application deadline for Joukowsky Summer Research Award

March 1 Nominations due for the Faculty Mentoring and Advising Award and the Excellence in Teaching Award
March TBA Deadline for DEP applications (submit through UFunds) for Humanities & Social Science students who will be beyond the sixth year (can also be submitted after this date to be reviewed on a rolling basis)
March 11 STEM Diversity and Inclusion Divisional Meeting
March 13 Humanities & Social Science Diversity and Inclusion Divisional Meeting
March TBA Doctoral Welcome Days
March TBA Research Mobility Fellowship applications due for Fall travel
April TBA Interdisciplinary Opportunity program application deadline
March TBA Deadline for student applications for Deans' Faculty Fellowships (nominations and recommender forms due on March 29)

April 1 Nominations due for master's and doctoral awards presented at Commencement
April TBA Optional Spring Divisional meetings (all divisions welcome)
April 15 PhD and MFA admissions response date (admitted applicants must accept admissions offer by this date and cannot be asked to decide in advance of this date)
April TBA Summer appointments and departmental funding due to the Graduate School via GSIM (doctoral and master's)
April 18 Deadline for May graduates to submit the Application to Graduate via Banner

May 1 Thesis and dissertation submission deadline for May graduates
May 1 Deadline for students on leave to notify the Graduate School of a desire to return in the fall and to submit materials for readmission
May 23 Summer term bills generated (see Student Financial Services website)
May 23-25 Commencement weekend

June TBA Deadline for submitting Summer Progress Evaluations and Standing Letters to GSIM
June 1* Doctoral Preview Day Application Opens
June TBA Deadline for each program to set online application deadline cutoff for next admission cycler and request application changes (e.g., requirements or program-specific questions)
June TBA Fall appointments and departmental funding due to the Graduate School via GSIM (doctoral and master's)
June 11* Summer term bill due date
June 22* Fall term bills generated (see Student Financial Services website)
June 30 GSIM Appointment Management closed for changes for fiscal year end. Via GSIM: 1) Add and/or update progress evaluations in the current term with prior term performance 2) Update of milestones 3) Update advisors (current and prospective terms)

June 22 Deadline for programs to communicate change in chair and DGS for next academic year
July TBA Banner-based Application to Graduate open to students who expect to complete in October (Registrar's requirement)

August 1 Fall term bill due date
August 20-22* International Graduate Student Orientation
August 24-25* Graduate Student of Color Orientation
August 26-27* All-Student Orientation
August 28* Resource Fair
August 31 Deadline for entering Fall Progress Evaluations and uploading Standing Letters to GSIM

*Tentative date