Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education

Founded in 2002, the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) is the first U.S. research center devoted to the study and improvement of doctoral education worldwide.

Among today’s PhD graduates are tomorrow’s leaders, researchers, and innovators who confront a complex set of social, political, cultural, technical, environmental and health issues within a global setting. Our mission is to meet the urgent need for understanding doctoral education practices and outcomes worldwide and to discover how best to prepare PhD students to increase the world’s capacity for solving global problems and meeting human needs.