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Through its three divisions, the Rabb School offers opportunities for lifelong learning, professional advancement and personal enrichment.

The Rabb School of Continuing Studies

Through its three divisions, the Rabb School offers opportunities for lifelong learning, professional advancement and personal enrichment. The school serves its learners by offering graduate degree programs for working professionals, courses for credit for college students and others during the summer and noncredit enrichment courses for mature adult learners.

Supporting the university in its mission of open inquiry and teaching in a world of challenging social and technological transformation, the school is dedicated to developing innovative educational paradigms and to providing a collegial community for its on-campus and distance learners.

Graduate Professional Studies
The Division of Graduate Professional Studies provides a variety of distinctive niche master's degree programs that reflect current and future areas of graduate study for emerging professions. The Division offers year-round, part-time graduate courses on-line, and on campus in the evenings, for working professionals leading to:

  1. Master's degrees in health and medical informatics, project and program management, software engineering, bioinformatics, information assurance, information technology management and virtual team management and communication, as well as opportunities for sequential, multiple degrees;
  2. Credit-bearing graduate certificates in health and medical informatics, project management, bioinformatics, software engineering, information assurance, information technology management and virtual team management and communication; and
  3. Online graduate certificates and master's degrees in all areas, except bioinformatics.

The division also works with companies in the Greater Boston area to offer professionally oriented, graduate courses on-site or online. Classes generally meet online or one night a week for 10 weeks; terms begin in September, January and May.

Brandeis Summer School

The Brandeis Summer School is an open admission program offering courses and special summer programs for college-level credit. Small classes taught by experienced and dedicated Brandeis faculty members are the hallmark of summer offerings. Special programs and institutes include the Hebrew Language Summer Institute and chamber music workshops with the Lydian String Quartet, artists-in-residence.

Summer school provides the opportunity to experience innovative course formats, such as online offerings or evening and extended sessions, to accommodate work and other summer activities.

Brandeis Summer School courses do not have to be preapproved for transfer of credit to the Brandeis degree. Courses may be used toward the 128 credits required for the Bachelor's degree (with a 16 credit maximum) and toward general educational requirements, as well as major and minor requirements. Grades received for Brandeis Summer School courses that are internally transferred to a degree record are included as part of the candidate's permanent academic record and in the calculation of GPAs.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Brandeis University

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Brandeis University is a learning community of mature adults that offers noncredit, peer-led study in a spirit of conviviality on a wide range of topics, such as history, literature, art, music, religion, philosophy, science and writing. Study groups meet once a week during the two 10-week terms, fall and spring.

At midday, the Lunch & Learn program features excellent speakers (e.g., journalists, academics, artists) on an eclectic array of topics. Each year in January and early June, the program offers one-week learning opportunities focused on a single theme and led by Brandeis faculty members. This learning community includes a number of intercampus, intergenerational programs with undergraduate and graduate students creating enriching educational experiences for learners of all ages.

Brandeis in the Berkshires:
World-Class Thinkers, World-Class Ideas

Brandeis in the Berkshires is a series of noncredit, interactive lectures that provides a forum for participants to engage actively in a dialogue about world affairs, society and culture. Brandeis in the Berkshires is a dynamic extension of the university's notable commitment to excellent and accessible liberal education, social justice and the open and thoughtful exchange of ideas and issues.

Participants gather in the Berkshires with Brandeis faculty, alumni, and other national and international experts to explore complex challenges facing the world now and in the future.