The Department of Atmospheric Sciences offers graduate courses and research opportunities leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Class sizes are small and offer easy and frequent interaction with the faculty. The graduate program has been carefully designed to provide students with a solid foundation in a broad spectrum of the atmospheric sciences while allowing students to specialize for their thesis research. Through these goals, the Department expects our graduates to contribute during their professional careers to a diverse range of issues that affect the public locally, nationally, and internationally. For additional information, including admissions criteria and the application procedure, see the Graduate Student Guide. Information about the research interests of individual faculty members can be found in our web-pages describing the faculty and their special collaborative research projects.