The Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan is a markedly interdisciplinary program. The faculty is diverse, multi-disciplinary, and multi-lingual, maintaining felicitous relations between the graduate program and other university units, not only in the humanities and the social sciences but also in other schools, including the School of Music, Art and Design, and Architecture. Much of the graduate program's recent success is attributed to the flexibility of the curriculum, which encourages strongly motivated students from a variety of cultural backgrounds, all highly skilled in their linguistic abilities, to draw upon the broad range of expertise of the Michigan faculty.

Beginning Fall 2006, certain entering international students must be screened for tuberculosis. Screening will be offered free on campus. See http://www.uhs.umich.edu/tbscreen or send an email to tbscreen@umich.edu for more information.