Higher Education - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GRS) was founded in 1874 as the School of All Sciences to provide advanced programs of study and research leading to MA and Ph.D. degrees. In 1877, the first degrees were granted to Isaac Newton Lewis (MA), James Barclay Hall (Ph.D.), and Helen Magill (Ph.D.), who was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from an American university. Today, approximately 1,800 candidates are registered in MA, MFA, MS, and Ph.D. programs in nearly 40 major fields.