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Education & Training at The Rockefeller University
Graduate Program in Bioscience
Rockefeller's highly flexible graduate training program is designed to educate and inspire tomorrow's scientific leaders. The university's laboratories are at the center of the student experience.
Clinical Research Training Programs
RockEDU Science Outreach
Postdoctoral Programs
Undergraduate Programs
Why Rockefeller?

Rockefeller’s philosophy of investing in brilliant, innovative individuals extends to its students and postdocs, who collaborate as equals with their mentors and receive the scientific foundation they need to succeed in academia, in industry, and as policy makers. Our programs offer:

Flexibility and independence
Supportive mentorship from scientific leaders
Resources and technology to explore

Sid Strickland

Sid Strickland

Professor

The priority here is accomplishment. Any peripheral concerns are taken care of.
Research at The Rockefeller University

Centered around 72 cutting-edge laboratories working in a broad range of fields, The Rockefeller University fosters a collaborative research environment for its faculty. Our commitment to funding high-risk, high-reward science gives scientists freedom to pursue projects that might never occur elsewhere.

MariannaAgudelo

Marianna Agudelo

Student

Rockefeller labs don’t straddle the boundaries between fields. They dive into those spaces headfirst.
Careers

A clearinghouse of opportunities, as well as a resource for one-on-one counseling, Rockefeller’s Office of Career and Professional Development is a springboard to a rewarding career in science. From traditional academic appointments to jobs in biotech, pharma, business, and policy, Rockefeller students thrive professionally.

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Stefano Di Talia

Alumnus

At Rockefeller, I was encouraged to be bold, to venture into unknown territories, to just go for it.
Science Outreach Program
RockEDU Science Outreach

Our RockEDU Science Outreach programs engage students with hands-on, mentored scientific experience and provide educators with the tools they need to instill a lifelong love of scientific exploration in their students.

Education and Training News

Rockefeller leads global university ranking in measure of top cited publications

An international ranking of research institutions by U-Multirank placed Rockefeller first in the United States among 227 universities, and first internationally in a measure of its impact based on citations.

Rockefeller tops global ranking of research excellence

An extensive international ranking of research institutions by U-Multirank gave Rockefeller top scores in several categories related to scientific impact and knowledge transfer.

Rockefeller takes first place in global ranking of scientific impact

Out of over 900 universities from 55 different countries, Rockefeller tops a survey measuring the impact of university research publications, scoring the highest percentage of frequently cited scientific publications.

Seek Magazine: Becoming a Scientist

Rachel Niec 

Clinical scholar Rachel Niec is surveying the vast landscape of the human gut, and becoming both a medical and scientific expert on GI disease.

Jeanne Garbarino 

Meet the scientist whose job it is to get teens out of their textbooks and into the lab.

Jasmine Nirody 

She’s the physicist whose love of locomotion became a research topic, and a career.