diff --git a/dspy/datasets/dataloader.py b/dspy/datasets/dataloader.py
index c9da0270d..1e9ba1a78 100644
--- a/dspy/datasets/dataloader.py
+++ b/dspy/datasets/dataloader.py
@@ -62,7 +62,14 @@ def from_json(self, file_path:str, fields: List[str] = None, input_keys: Tuple[s
         
         return [dspy.Example({field:row[field] for field in fields}).with_inputs(*input_keys) for row in dataset]
 
+    def from_parquet(self, file_path: str, fields: List[str] = None, input_keys: Tuple[str] = ()) -> List[dspy.Example]:
+        dataset = load_dataset("parquet", data_files=file_path)["train"]
 
+        if not fields:
+            fields = list(dataset.features)
+
+        return [dspy.Example({field: row[field] for field in fields}).with_inputs(input_keys) for row in dataset]
+    
     def sample(
         self,
         dataset: List[dspy.Example],
@@ -110,4 +117,4 @@ def train_test_split(
         train_dataset = dataset_shuffled[:train_end]
         test_dataset = dataset_shuffled[train_end:train_end + test_end]
 
-        return {'train': train_dataset, 'test': test_dataset}
+        return {'train': train_dataset, 'test': test_dataset}
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