Resources
If you’re interested in graduate school, the following Web pages can provide more information about what to expect from the application process to funding to graduation. We also have a printable version of some of the best materials.
- Career Center - Is Graduate School For Me?
- Good list of hard questions
- Getting Into Graduate School - AEGS - Marquette University
- Basic steps for preparation of application, researching schools, etc
- Careers outside the Academy
- MLA Prof Dev, 1999 (?): one section, see full report too
- Advice to Graduate Students: From Application to Career
- MLA Academic Freedom/Professional Responsibilities: one section of larger report, good overview/intro of process
- Summary Tables for Departments of English
- MLA Guide to Doctoral Programs: Let's do the Numbers! See full report too.
- Chronicle Careers: 7/17/2003: If You Must Go to Grad School ...
- Thomas Benton (pseud) | Good introductory stuff; first point is DO NOT PAY. Yes! We agree.
- Council of Graduate Schools - Professional Master's Programs
- Alternatives to PhD for business, non-profit, government sectors
- Graduate School Application Process
- U of Minnesota Graduate School. Contains a very useful time-line concerning the grad school application process
- Applying to Graduate School
- U of Maryland. Overview of the process.
- Selecting a Graduate School and Graduate Program
- Tara Kuther | General information about selection. Beware of pop-up ads
- FAQ about MFA: Cornell University
- Cornell U | FAQ about Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
- SUU - MFA Arts Administration: Frequently Asked Questions
- Southern Utah U | FAQ about Master of Fine Arts program
- Doctorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Master's degree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - General description of doctoral and masters degrees
The following sites are less useful, but nonetheless informative.
- Chronicle Careers: 6/3/2003: So You Want to Go to Grad School?
- Thomas Benton (pseud) | Negative, suggests undergraduate English is wimpy
- The Job Crisis and Graduate Studies
- MLA Prof Dev, 1999 (?): one section, see full report too
- The Worst of Times amid the Best of Times?
- MLA Prof Dev, 1999 (?): some doom and gloom; see full report too
- Applications and Graduate Education - Marquette University
- Gerald Graff and Andrew Hoberek | Abridgment of opinion piece from College English 62.2 (1999)
