Newly Admitted Graduate Students

Welcome new graduate students! Please check out this video for some useful information on how to navigate Graduate School at UWM.

Graduate Assistants Handbook

Geography Graduate Student Handbook

Graduate Student Handbook (PDF)

Teaching Assistant Handbook

Graduate Student Forms

Financial Support

Internship Forms

Graduate Grievance Procedures

Federal law and UWM policy require programs and departments to have procedures for graduate students to appeal academic decisions such as grades or scholastic standing. These procedures ensure the protection of students’ rights. These pages serve as a reference on procedures for graduate student academic appeals.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.