Career Center - Graduate & Professional Schools
Graduate and Professional School Services
The Career Center can help you in pursuing graduate or professional school in several ways. We provide:
- A comprehensive Graduate and Professional School Guide
- An annual Graduate and Professional School Fair.
- Preparation for the GRE and other entrance exams.
- Critique of your admissions essays and Curriculum Vitae.
- Strategies to select a program that suits you.
- Mock interviews tailored to your program.
- Printed resources listing all accredited programs in North America.
- A credential file service so you can request and store your letters of recommendation if you're planning to delay grad school.
Graduate and Professional School links
Here are some good links for Graduate and Professional Fair School information:
GRE Homepage : www.ets.org/gre
Includes Math Review (covers all math topics that will be tested on the quantitative section of the GRE), provides an introduction to the Analytical Writing Section (AWS), the entire pool of posible topics for the AWS, free access to PowerPrep, ETS's own GRE prep materials (2 Full length practice tesets, lots of sample questions with complete explanations, target scores, etc.)
Program Rankings: www.phds.org/rankings
Allows you to find doctoral programs that match the criteria that you desire in graduate schools and includes rankings from the National Research Council (graduate faculty assessing each other based on such factors as reputation of the faculty, quality of the curriculum in preparing scholars and mean year to degree.)
Researching Program Faculty: scholar.google.com
Enables you to search for individual faculty publications as you look for the graduate schools where the faculty research interests overlap most fully with your own. Includes not only the scholars' own publications, but also links to the publication titles in which the scholars' works have been cited.
Listings of Fraduate and Professional School Programs: www.petersons.com
Search for programs by location, insitution or keyword.
Financial Aid: www.gradschools.com/info/financial.html
Provides links to many of the best websites for financial aid, fellowships and grants for graduate school.
More GRE Help: www.mygretutor.com
Provides additional GRE test preparation tips and exercises.
Undergraduate Research Registry: www.cur.org/ugreg
Allows undergrads with research experience in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, physics/ astronomy, mathematics/computer science, economics, geosciences, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to upload their CV's into a registry searchable by graduate school representatives. Sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research.
If you would like more information, please contact the Career Center.
