At UT, each graduate degree program has a graduate studies committee. The GSC is made up of all professors (at all ranks) in the program.

The GSC appoints a chairperson.

Here is what the GSC does:

• Make recommendations for new graduate courses and any changes.
• Set goals for the numbers of new students to be enrolled in the programs.
• Setting admission requirements.
• Recommend admission of students.
• Set requirements for degrees.
• Establish supplementary requirements for continuation in its program.
• Recommend the committee chairs and committee members for supervision of theses and dissertations.
• Recommend students for doctoral candidacy.
• Make available to its students a description of its requirements, the procedures that a student is expected to follow in achieving a degree, and the standards demanded for continuation in the program.

The current GSC chair is Prof. Don Fussell.

Contrast the graduate studies committee role with: Graduate Coordinator, Graduate Adviser, and department chair.