Offices, centers, programs, and fellowships
Wayne State University offers a wide array of offices, centers, organizations, programs, and fellowships that prepare a diverse student body to thrive. Some of these key offerings are listed below.
- High school students (pre-college programs)
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program
- Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST)
- Graduate Dean's Diversity Fellowships
- Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD/MBRS)
- King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program (KCP)
- Mentoring Undergraduate Students towards Excellence (MUSE) Program
- ReBUILD Detroit
- Success for Underrepresented Students in Graduate Education (SURGE)
- Student organizations
Wayne State University students can pursue various interests and take advantage of encouragement and assistance from peers and advisors through more than 500 diverse student organizations. Click here to see the "Get Involved" page with a prepopulated category filter for identity, culture, equity, and inclusion-related organizations.
Additionally, students can opt to create a new student organization through the guidance and support of the Dean of Students Office.
- Centers and institutes
Wayne State University's centers and institutes play an integral role in its mission to create and advance knowledge, prepare a diverse student body to thrive, and positively impact local and global communities. WSU's centers and institutes embrace the multidisciplinary nature of scholarship and research within the university and expand university boundaries by fostering collaboration with government, industry, and organizations to enhance economic growth and the quality of life locally, nationally, and globally.
Select centers and institutes are linked below, and more are available through the Division of Research.
- Center for Behavioral Health and Justice
- Center for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics
- Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
- Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Center for Social Work Research
- Center for the Study of Citizenship
- Center for Urban Studies
- Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
- Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
- Detroit Equity Action Lab
- Developmental Disabilities Institute
- Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues
- Humanities Center
- Institute of Gerontology
- Institute for Leadership and Diversity (ILEAD)
- Labor Studies Center
- Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child & Family Development
- School and college diversity
Wayne State's 13 schools and colleges offer more than 350 degree and certificate programs for its graduates and undergraduates. Each of these schools and colleges supports the university's mission to create and advance knowledge, prepare a diverse student body to thrive, and positively impact local and global communities thanks to unique experiences, programs and services.
- Mike Ilitch School of Business
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
- The Graduate School
- Irvin D. Reid Honors College
- Law School
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- School of Library and Information Science
- School of Medicine
- College of Nursing
- Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- School of Social Work