The Graduate College encompases all divisions of the university, but does not supervise programs in the College of Law. This coverage of all regular disciplines and professional fields provides a wide variety of academic programs. Enrollments are large enough to make possible the vital interchange of ideas among students and between students and faculty that is necessary for graduate programs, and yet enrollments are sufficiently small to permit close faculty-student relationships.
Interdepartmental cooperation is an important factor on the Idaho campus.
The University is the chief research center of the state and as such operates active graduate programs in most areas providing a broad research base upon which graduate programs have been built. The University of Idaho InterdisciplinaryStudies program offers a M.S. degree in Idaho Falls. Theobjective of the interdisciplinary studies degree is to provide studentswith the opportunity to design specific programs of study of an interdisciplinarynature when the student's needs or desires do not fall within a currentlyprescribed program. Individual study plans draw from courses offered intwo or more departments. The interdisciplinary program has both a thesis option and a nonthesis option.