least a doubling of the current number of available TA stipends. While there are healthy numbers of
students in the graduate program, the number of students in each degree program has remained essentially
unchanged for the past 7 years (Figure 1). The same is true for the number of graduates over this time
period, although there is more variation year-to-year (Figure 2).
Figure 1. Total number of graduate students enrolled in each program for academic years 2008-09 to
2014 - 15.
Figure 2. M.S. Biology and Marine Biology graduates since inception of graduate programs. The top
shaded bar that appears beginning is 2006 is for the Ph.D. in Marine Biology.