GENERAL INFORMATION
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Marc Tessier Lavigne
The best way to learn science is by doing science."
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President
The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry and biophysics. The university's Ph.D. program offers rigorous training in the biomedical and physical sciences and close mentoring by faculty. Rockefeller also offers one of the nation's top M.D./Ph.D. programs with neighboring Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The graduate program is flexible and individualized depending on a student's needs, and provides full financial support, housing on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and outstanding opportunities for intellectual growth.

Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1901 as the nation's first institute for medical research, the university has a laboratory-based structure that encourages interdisciplinary research. This innovative, collaborative approach has been an unparalleled success, contributing to 24 Nobel Prizes—including prizes to Professors Günter Blobel, 1999, Paul Greengard, 2000, Paul Nurse, 2001, and Roderick MacKinnon, 2003.

STUDENT PROFILE
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I am impressed by how international Rockefeller is. Since students are funded through the Dean's Office instead of through individual lab budgets, there are more opportunities for international students and more chances for students to pursue their own research interests. Nobody clips our wings at Rockefeller; we go wherever our science takes us."

It is the policy of The Rockefeller University to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No individual shall be denied admission to the Graduate Program of the University or otherwise be discriminated against with respect to any program or in the administration of any policy of the University because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability. The Rockefeller University is committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs that will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.