Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the oldest graduate school in the United States, and is one of four graduate schools at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States.Fact|date=November 2007 The graduate program first was founded in 1820, when Georgetown College graduates expressed the desire for continued studies. The school coffered its first graduate degree in 1821. [cite web |url= http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/history.cfm |title= Georgetown History |work= [http://grad.georgetown.edu Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences] |accessdate= 2007-09-06] The school existed independently from 1855 until the end of the American Civil War, and was again established in 1891, conferring its first doctoral degree in 1897. [cite book |title= Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907, Its Founders, Benefactors, Officers, Instructors and Alumni |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=DxUUAAAAIAAJ |first= James Stanislaus |last= Easby-Smith |origyear= 1907 |publisher= The Lewis publishing company |location= Original from the New York Public Library |date= October 24, 2006 |chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=DxUUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22&sig=WorpAmcEeHm82WkyO7GUpVhtU2E |accessdate= 2007-09-07] The school is currently the second largest graduate school at Georgetown, behind the Georgetown University Law Center. The school offers 46 programs in 34 departments. [cite web |url= http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/graduate_programs.cfm |title= Graduate Degree Programs |work= [http://grad.georgetown.edu Graduate School of Arts and Sciences] |publisher= Georgetown University |date= 2007 |accessdate= 2007-04-19]
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