Before You Choose a Psychology Graduate School
So you've decided to go to psychology graduate school, but now you face a difficult question: What graduate school should you choose? While you may know exactly what you want to study and have a specific career goal, not all psychology graduate programs are created equal.
In order to find the right program for your needs, interests, and goals, it is essential to explore all of your options and consider a number of different factors. The following are just a few of the big considerations you have to make before you pick a psychology graduate program.
Where Is the School Located?
When y...
How to Write the Graduate Admissions Essay
It should come as no surprise that most applicants do not enjoy drafting their graduate admissions essay. Writing a statement that tells a graduate admissions committee all about you and can potentially make or break your application is stressful. Take a different perspective, however, and you will find that your ad
What is its Purpose?
Your graduate school application provides the admissions committee with a great deal of information about you that cannot be found elsewhere in your graduate application. The other parts of your graduate school application tell the admissions committee abou...
3 Things to Do Before Applying to Grad School
While graduate school, may not be for everybody, some of us will be ready to take that next step in our education soon after undergrad. Here are a few things you need to do before and during the time you start applying to graduate school.
1. Do your research.
Picking a grad school is a very important process. Unlike choosing where you would go for undergrad, choosing the perfect graduate school requires you to look at more than just the school’s “night life.” Hopefully, your priorities have evolved enough over the past four years that this wouldn't even be a factor. There are a num...
What You Need to Know before Applying to Grad School
Whether you’re a freshman still figuring out what you want to major in or a senior stressing over graduation deadlines and internships, chances are, you have given some thought to attending graduate school. If you’ve thought about looking at an advanced degree, either here at our very own Florida State University campus (which offers 121 master’s degree programs and 78 doctoral degree programs in subjects ranging from biomedical science to law) or maybe in a state as far away as Hawaii, you might just have some questions.
So how does grad school even work? What does it take to get i...
Online Higher Education Graduate Programs & Degrees
Why consider higher education online programs? Enrolling in an online higher education graduate program can be a great way to help enhance your career as a teacher or administrator. Whether you picture your future managing the office of the registrar at a college or university—or your goal is to teach your area of expertise at a higher level—earning your higher education graduate degree can provide you with the advanced knowledge and skills you need to help you be successful in the field of postsecondary education. Learn more about online graduate administration degrees in higher education...
Before You Apply
Graduate school requires a huge investment of time and money which means you want to be sure you are making informed decisions before you apply to graduate school. You may first want to determine if graduate school is in-fact right for you, then you may want to ensure that you are choosing a field of study that suits your personality, and your academic and professional goals. Next you can determine how you want to study (online or on campus) and where you want to study (geographic location). Once you have all of that information straightened out you can start to prepare for your standardized t...
Masters in Entrepreneurship Programs | MBA in Entrepreneurship Degrees
Graduates with a strong sense of managerial autonomy coupled with a desire to launch their own venture might find that earning a master in entrepreneurship may be an investment in their future business. Instead of learning by trial and error, a Masters in Entrepreneurship program exposes students to a more complete understanding of start-up dynamics, which may be extremely helpful in this competitive and dynamic economy. Whereas general business degrees may offer a perspective on management, entrepreneurship masters programs are intended to provide students with the foundation for getting a sm...
10 Things Every Graduate Student Should Experience
Grad school shouldn’t be all study, study, study. Here are our suggestions for improving your work-life balance.
1.Crash another department’s event
Staying within your own department can get so insular! Bust out of the tunnel vision and hit a potluck or cocktail hour held by another program – preferably, one that’s vastly different than your own. In med school? Hit up the art school’s tea. Thespians, consider spicing up the economics Ph.D.s’ happy hour with some improv.
2.Crash an undergrad party
“Party? What’s that?” Parties are foreign to you now, but they weren...
Managing Stress in Graduate School
Inevitably, stress becomes an intrinsic element in all of life's major decisions: the decision to attend grad school is no exception. It seems as though for an instant you excitedly anticipate your acceptance into the graduate program of your choice, you receive your acceptance letter, and then it happens: YOU'RE STRESSED!
In addition to the impending academic stress with which you will soon be confronted, also existing are the numerous other stress factors in your life: work, family, and time (your nemesis!). Although I cannot provide you with any mystery formula to totally purge you of yo...
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