# Definitions

**Source**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/academic-policies-procedures/definitions/
**Parent**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/academic-policies-procedures/

- "College" refers to the College of Arts, Media and Design; the Bouvé College of Health Sciences; the D’Amore-McKim School of Business; the Khoury College of Computer Sciences; the College of Engineering; the College of Professional Studies; the College of Science; the College of Social Sciences and Humanities; the School of Law; and Mills College at Northeastern.
- “Graduate office” refers to either the designated graduate administration office in the a college (as defined above) or an equivalent academic and academic support office that exists outside a college that serves the functions of a college-based graduate office.
- “Graduate program” refers to all postbaccalaureate degree, nondegree, and certificate programs and packages of courses offered for graduate credit. Graduate programs shall not include programs or courses that are offered by the School of Law in support of the JD or LLM degree.