HDFS Graduate Programs
Helpful Information and Forms
The HDFS Graduate Student Handbook (pdf file) provides information about how to navigate your tenure here with us. You'll find departmental requirements and specific information in it. Additionally, you should also familiarize yourself with the OSU Graduate School Handbook (pdf file).
For more information
- OSU Graduate School: contains extensive information on the Graduate Program at Ohio State University including application forms, the graduate student handbook, and student life information.
- Graduate School form filling deadlines (pdf file): important deadline dates for filing forms, such as application to graduate, etc.
- Registar's Office Calendar: important dates, including fee and registration deadlines.
- Financial Aid: information for undergraduate, graduate, transfer, professional, and international students. Application forms can be downloaded from this site.
Forms
Below is a listing of and links to several helpful HDFS graduate student forms. All are Microsoft Word documents.
- End of Academic Year Report Form
- Approved Program Plan - M.S. Degree Form
- Thesis/Independent Study Project Approval Form
- Request for Graduate Studies Committee Approval of Program Form
- Rationale for Doctoral Program of Study and Doctoral Program of Study in Major and Minor Areas of Concentration Form
- Approval of Dissertation Proposal Form
- Report to Adviser from Examination Committee Form
- Doctoral Program Checklist
- Master's Program Checklist - Plan A (Thesis)
- Master's Program Checklist - Plan B (Project and Exam)
Suggestions for Success
See your advisor often. Make appointments to discuss courses to be taken and progress as well as research interests. Being involved in your advisor's work leads to presentations at state and national conferences and can also lead to publications. We want you to be involved in these projects in order to get a better grasp of the work in the field.
Pay attention to deadlines and announcements. Advisors don't always know as much as you do about what is due next, etc., so keep track.
Ask questions of the Graduate Studies Chair or any other faculty member. It is important that you have all the information you need, and we can't always anticipate what that information might be. No question is a "silly" one.
Get to know your fellow students. Your graduate education/experience is as much about collegial interaction as it is about the courses your take. Get engaged in extra curricular opportunities like brown bag lunch series, seminars, journal clubs etc.
Other Helpful Links:
- Academics
- Financial Aid
- Housing
- International Students
- Student Life
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