In 1966, a fledgling school ten years old, a university in name only, became a university 事实上.

Thanks to a gift, in 1966, of $7,500,000 by the Blakley-Braniff Foundation, the Braniff 研究生院成立. The first 项目 offered were master's degrees in Art, English, and Business Administration, and a Ph.D. 政治与文学. 每一个 of these had a distinctive character setting it apart from other 项目, both locally 而在全国范围内.

The 程序 in Business Administration – now the 萨蒂什和雅斯明古普塔商学院 – established its defining and ground-breaking principle of innovative, practice-based education, having actual businessmen teaching potential businessmen. 应对 the needs of the expanding and changing Dallas-Fort Worth area, it grew rapidly and developed its own administrative and teaching structure. 近13000度 been awarded through College of Business 项目.

对教育有影响的力量 

Other early graduate 项目 initiated what is now the complex of offerings known as the 布拉尼夫文科研究生院. 艺术部很快就增加了 sixty-credit M.F.A., the terminal degree for studio artists, to its initial M.A. 程序. 它是 只有两个M.F.A. studio art 项目 offered by Catholic institutions in the United 州. It has become an influential force because of the fundamental soundness and sophistication of its 程序, arising from the convictions that an artist is also a craftsman who must acquire technical control of his or her medium, and that an artist's inspiration comes from an informed and particular response to his or her place in time supported by a knowledge of the history and theory of art. 艺术工作室毕业生 chair and staff art faculties in colleges 和大学 throughout 这个国家.

到原来的M.A. in English have gradually been added many other 硕士学位, including 项目 in American studies, humanities, philosophy, politics, psychology and theology, as well as the degrees offered by the Neuhoff Institute for Ministry & Evangelization that prepare lay people for work in various Church ministries. 所有 reflect the overarching mission of the University: to revive the Western heritage of liberal education and to recover the Christian intellectual tradition. 这种方法, like that of the undergraduate curriculum, concerns the study not only of major authors and texts, but also of the continuity of the intellectual traditions out of which 他们来. In addition, graduate work in the liberal arts has a social dimension – 教师的形成. Half of the graduate students in the Humanities 程序, 例如，是教师. Present and future teachers – in public and private institutions, at all levels of instruction – are the primary focus for departments offering master's 项目. To date, the 布拉尼夫文科研究生院 has awarded 1,500 degrees to men and women who exemplify our approach in the excellence of their educational 愿景. They constitute a vital resource in the University's effort to renew education 全国范围内.

一种独特的博士研究方法

Nationally, the University's most influential graduate 程序 in the liberal arts is the one that began in 1966 as the Willmoore Kendall 程序 政治与文学. 现在叫做 哲学研究所, it awards doctoral degrees in Philosophy, as well as in Politics and in Literature. From the beginning this 程序 has been deservedly called unique. 没有其他大学 提供跨学科的博士学位.D. with a core curriculum in which students from the different fields within the humanities participate as a group. 每学期三个人 years all the students in the 程序 share one of six core courses, each devoted 西方文明中的关键文本. Students belong to a true, cross-disciplinary intellectual community, using insights gained from the study of each other's disciplines 加深对自己的认识.

Doctoral students prepare themselves to teach in colleges 和大学 that have an institutional mission similar to ours – with undergraduate core or honors curricula, 或者跨学科的本科学习. Our success in forming teachers of intellectual breadth, commitment and integrity has gradually increased the reputation of the 程序. Consequently, doctoral graduates consistently find employment at institutions throughout 这个国家. 哈佛大学授予第180届博士学位.D. 在2009年5月的毕业典礼上. Of 38 Ph值.D. students awarded degrees since 1998, one is a trustee of our university, one is employed in a think tank in Arizona, one has joined a monastic order in Italy, one is teaching at a secondary school in New England, four are either in law school or practicing law, and twenty-eight presently hold teaching positions at colleges 和大学.

A source of renewal in the Western tradition of liberal arts

The offerings of the 布拉尼夫文科研究生院 are a continual source of renewal, not only in sending teachers into local and national arenas, but in reaffirming among the faculty, administration, and Board of Trustees a shared commitment to educational 卓越、正直和领导力.