Graduate School Choices

It is important to be able to find information to help you make decisions about your future. This is part of the lifelong learning commitment that you will need to be involved with in order to stay ahead of the game during your career.

In this assignment, you need to find the top ten graduate schools within your discipline according to a documented source. List these top ten schools. Within the top ten schools, pick two that you would want to apply to. Find two faculty members at each of those schools who are doing research that interests you and summarize what they are doing in three or fewer sentences. Give pros and cons about each school from your own perspective.

Give a brief description of a short term personal plan you have for getting into these schools. Be specific about three actions you can take this semester to become a more attractive student to them.

Give a brief description of a long term plan for preparing yourself for getting into these top schools. Come up with three actions you can take over the next two years to become a top recruit.