Graduate Programs

Advanced studies for professional scholars and leaders

We’ve taken everything that’s distinctive about a W&M undergraduate education — small classes, world-class facilities, close relationships with faculty — and made it even more hands-on, more personalized and more focused on concrete professional and academic goals.

In Arts & Sciences, graduate and post-baccalaureate students in 13 areas of study conduct original research and work alongside faculty and undergraduate students on wide-ranging projects with real-world significance.

William & Mary enjoys active partnerships with the region’s leading research facilities and resources, such as the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Jamestown Rediscovery: Historic Jamestowne and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.

Raymond A. Mason School of Business offers a full-time, residential MBA program, Master of Accounting program and Master of Science in Business Analytics program (MSBA). In addition, the school offers an Executive MBA, Part-Time evening MBA, Online MBA, Online MSBA, Online Master of Science in Finance, Online Master of Accounting, and Online Master of Science in Marketing, which are designed for working professionals. All students get a personalized, experience-based business education partnering with top-ranked faculty and executives in real-time, real-world business cases.

William & Mary Law School, the first law school to open in the United States, offers five advanced degrees and boasts the most technologically advanced educational trial and appellate courtroom in the world.

The William & Mary School of Marine Science at VIMS, located on our 42-acre Gloucester Point campus, is a living laboratory of inland marshes, tidewater bays and open ocean, ready to be explored on one of the school’s more than 40 vessels.

And the William & Mary School of Education offers a fully-integrated approach to advanced teacher, counselor, school psychologist and administrator training, producing professionals who are equipped with the emotional, intellectual and leadership skills to bring about positive change in our nation’s schools and communities.

Looking for the flexibility of online and hybrid courses? Select graduate degree programs are now offered online, delivering a personalized education taught by our award-winning faculty.

Find out more about graduate and post-baccalaureate studies in Arts & Sciences:

and about our four graduate and professional schools: