The purpose of the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC) is to facilitate doctoral arts and science students taking needed coursework at one or several of the other institutions. The members of the consortium include: Columbia University (see note below), Teachers College, Columbia; the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Fordham University; The New School; New York University; Rutgers-New Brunswick; and Stony Brook University, SUNY.

Guidelines and Eligibility

Students must have completed one academic year of full-time residence in a Ph.D. program in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences. Students wishing to take a course at Columbia University should apply through the IUDC exchange, not the IvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program.

Under ordinary circumstances, graduate students can take one course a year away from Princeton in years two and three of the graduate program.

A reciprocal agreement between Princeton and Rutgers permits graduate students from one institution to take one regularly offered graduate course per term at the other (with tuition charged by the home institution) with the recommendation of the departmental director of graduate studies and subject to the approval of the dean of the Graduate School and the course instructor.

The University also has exchange programs with the Institute for Advanced Study and Westminster Choir College.

The IvyPlus Exchange Scholars Program enables Princeton Ph.D. students to study for up to one academic year at one of the following institutions: the University of California at Berkeley, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T. (School of Science only), the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Yale. The academic experience, including courses taken and/or research conducted with particular faculty at one of the institutions above, is noted on the student’s academic record and official transcript at Princeton.

Students are eligible for this exchange program only after completing one year of residence; post-generals status is preferable in all but the most exceptional cases. Students are regularly registered at their home institution and hold special nondegree status at the host institution. Any financial aid provided must come from the home institution. Participation in the program requires the approval of the director of graduate studies (or the department chair), the student's adviser, and the graduate school dean at both the home and the host institutions.

• Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies
• DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service
• Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (ENS)
• Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po)
• Freie Universitaet Berlin
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Princeton-Humboldt Exchange
• Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS)
• University of Tokyo

The Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program introduces graduate students to diverse aspects of curatorial practice within the context of a museum. Drawing on the richness of The Met’s collections, which represents thousands of years of human creativity from across the globe, as well as the depth and breadth of its staff’s expertise, this program explores the complexities of curating in the present by focusing on object-based analysis, research, exhibition planning, collection building, gallery display, and curatorial methodologies. Course content foregrounds some of the most pressing ethical, social, and political matters facing curators and museums today. Course information and applications are distributed in advance of the fall and spring semesters.

While work with the Curatorial Practice Program does not appear on the student's Princeton University transcript, the department notes student participation (i.e., which semester/year they participated) and the grade received. Participation in the Curatorial Practice Program can be indicated on a graduate student's CV, and the Graduate Program Administrator can also provide a supporting letter indicating participation/the grade received for any future applications. The department also sponsors travel funding from Princeton to the New York City. 

Curatorial Leadership
Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art
Sarah Lawrence, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
 
Program Coordinator
Laura Corey, Project Manager for Curatorial, Conservation, and Science Initiatives, and Senior Researcher, Director’s Office
 
Please send any questions to [email protected].