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Graduate Advisors

Graduate Advisors

Information & Resources for Texas A&M Graduate Advisors

Graduate Advisors are essential to the success of Texas A&M University’s graduate and professional students. Your insight and guidance help students stay on track to meet their academic goals and complete their programs on time. The Graduate and Professional School wants to make it easy for you to help your students excel.

Expectations for Graduate Study

The major goals of graduate and professional education at Texas A&M include instilling in each student an understanding of and a capacity for scholarship, independent judgment, academic rigor and intellectual honesty. Faculty and graduate students have a shared obligation to work together to foster these goals through relationships that advance freedom of inquiry, demonstrate individual and professional integrity, and encourage common respect.

Excellence in graduate education is achieved when faculty and students are inspired, have the academic and professional backgrounds essential to function at the highest level and are genuine in their mutual desire to see one another succeed.

Graduate and Professional School Home

ExPLORE Graduate Advisor Resources

Advisor Handbook

Find all the information you need to know to guide your support of students and inform your collaboration with the Grad School, from policies and procedures, to clearance for graduation. This guide is updated annually.  

View the handbook

Listserv

The Grad Advisor Listserv is a mailing service used to distribute critical and relevant information about opportunities and information for graduate students and/or graduate advisors.

Listserv Guidelines

Workshops for Advisors

Workshops and Development Sessions were developed by the Graduate and Professional School to provide graduate advisors with the necessary tools and most current, up-to-date information regarding graduate advising and working efficiently with our office.

Graduate Advisor Workshops

Stay in the loop - Upcoming graduate and professional school deadlines

The Grad School Calendar contains important deadlines pertaining to degree requirements for the current and future semesters.

Check Deadlines

Degree Completion Information

Your Role in Degree Completion

As an advisor, you’ll work with your student’s graduate committee to guide and track their progress toward degree completion. You should give your student direction for developmental and learning goals and periodically evaluate their academic performance, connecting them with appropriate support resources when necessary.

Masters Degree Requirements

Doctoral Degree Requirements

Degree completion tools for advisors

ARCS

The Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS) is used to submit, collect signatures and register approvals for many of the documents, forms and petitions associated with degree completion.

ARCS

My Grad Journey

My Grad Journey is an innovative tool graduate students can use to collect and curate academic and professional development activities, as well as career aspirations. The system also enables faculty, staff and students to coordinate feedback and increase transparency in annual and ad hoc review processes. 

Knowledge Center

Find important dates and deadlines, forms, policies, Graduate School resources, and answers to frequently asked questions in the Knowledge Center.

Knowledge Center

Recognizing & Funding Excellence

Meet Our Funding and Administration Team

Graduate and Professional School staff work with departments across Texas A&M, such as Business Services, Research Services and Financial Aid, to administer fellowship funds, often via monthly stipends. We also work with Benefit Services to facilitate benefit reimbursements. 

Meet Our Funding and Administration Team

Explore financial support opportunities for students through select fellowships and assistantships, travel reimbursement for conference presentations, professional development fellowships, graduate student organization and professional development awards.

Explore Funding Opportunities

Additional Resources & Opportunities

Student Wellbeing

We are here to connect you with resources that support your overall wellbeing so you can reach your personal, academic and professional goals. 

Student Support

Academic Resources

We offer a host of services to support progress in your academic pursuits, ensuring that you have the tools for success.

Academic SUpport

Professional Development & Training

Texas A&M University offers a variety of programming for you to gain professional skills that complement the discipline-specific knowledge gained in your degree program.

Professional Development & Training

University Advisors & Counselors

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Texas A&M University Advisors and Counselors provides students support to enhance educational experiences, promote student retention, and foster academic development through increased professional communication.

  • Enhance professional development
  • Stay abreast of changes in university and college policies and procedures
  • Promote job recognition
  • Provide individual growth opportunities
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Texas A&M University Graduate Counselors & Advisors

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