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Engineering and the Master of Textile Technology are professional degrees. These differ from the traditional Master of Science degrees in that they emphasize the skills of the professions rather than serving as preparation for research.

A fourth graduate degree, the Master of Technology for International Development, is something new for the University. As the title suggests, it is a program to train young men and women to participate effectively in our national commitment to aid underdeveloped countries. The program is built upon the scientific and technological curricula now offered at State College with additional work in the language and the economic and social conditions in the countries where degree recipients are expecting to work. A twelve-week period of full internship in the foreign country is a part of the requirements for this degree. The program will emphasize the countries of Latin America where State College now has a substantial commitment.

The fifth new graduate degree at State College is the doctorate in physiology. For many years that institution has had an extensive research program focused on the physiological problems associated with cattle, poultry, and other farm animals. In the development of this work and in the basic biological sciences, strong faculty resources in physiology have been assembled. Progress in the solution of nutritional, reproductive, and other physiological processes of domestic animals rests upon the acquisition of fundamental knowledge about the behavior of the living cell. The new programs utilize these intellectual and physical resources at the College in these disciplines, and this program will extend the resources of the University in this area by adding new areas of research effort to the strong program on the Chapel Hill campus.

At the Woman's College three new graduate degrees have been established. Two of these, the Master of Arts in English and the Master of Arts in History, represent the first steps in developing a graduate program in the liberal arts and the sciences. Having established an enviable reputation for excellence in the undergraduate work in English and History and recognizing that graduate work is a major responsibility of university education, it seemed highly appropriate that the excellent resources of this campus be used in offering graduate work at the master's level.

The third graduate degree here is a professional master's degree in applied music. This degree recognized proficiency in performance as a musician rather than placing emphasis in musical history or theory. It is a part of the total development of a distinguished program in the performing arts on this campus of the University.

Perhaps the most striking feature of student enrollments has been the growth of the graduate programs on these three campuses. At Chapel Hill this year, 1,900 students were registered in the graduate school. There were an additional 783 students enrolled in law, medicine, and dentistry. Similarly at State College, the rate of growth of the graduate school has exceeded that of the undergraduate divisions. Last fall there were 1,065 students in the graduate school with 14 additional students in professional post-baccalaureate work. The admission of men to graduate study at Woman's College was responsible for a major increase in graduate enrollments here, and this year there are 397 students taking graduate work on this campus.

Another evidence of the vitality of the graduate programs is found in the large number of fellowships supported by federal agencies and by private foundations. I will not take time here to identify these in detail, but I do wish to say that on the Chapel Hill and Raleigh campuses during recent years, not just last year, but recent years, more than 200 graduate students have received support through fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Defense Education Act, the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. The 27 Woodrow Wilson fellows who elected to take advanced work this year at Chapel Hill represent an increase of nearly 60 per cent of the number who selected this branch of the University last year.