Why You Should Get a PhD

The path to achieving a doctorate degree, or PhD, may be filled with long hours doing paperwork and research inside dusty libraries, the confines of your own home, or in actual field scenarios. A PhD will also require several years of formal studies. Getting that PhD diploma may be tough, but for the true academic, [...]

How to Pay for Graduate School Student Loans

Graduate school education can be expensive. Because of the cost of tuition, may graduate students opt to get student loans. While student loans may seem a godsend to students with limited financial resources, a significant number of graduating students are burdened with thousands of dollars in debt. So, paying off students loans can be pretty [...]

How to Manage Time in Graduate School

If college was a challenge, graduate school will prove to be more so. With more advanced courses and heightened expectations, time seems to become a rarer commodity by the minute. Now that you have survived college and are in graduate school, you are expected to have much better time management skills. So, you know that [...]

For Teaching and Research Assistants: Tips on Avoiding Sexual Harassment

Though you are working as a teaching assistant in a respectable institution, you can still fall prey to sexual harassment. Even a consensual relationship between you and your professor can turn sour and stifling that it can actually be considered a form of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment creates an uncomfortable and unproductive environment. So, you [...]

Factors That Can Affect Your Graduate School Choices

Dividing Time between Being in Graduate School and Doing Part-time Jobs

Believe it or not, you can still excel in graduate school even if you have a job on the side. Of course, you need to practice proper time management to be able to finish everything at its right time. First off, you need to know if you really want to go through graduate school. Then, [...]

How to Cite Sources Using MLA, APA and Turabian Citations

Citations are always required when it comes to writing graduate school papers. And as they are easy to input, citations should be written properly. Doing so does not only reflect responsibility over small details on your part but also seriousness over graduate school requirements. Below are the basics you must know about writing MLA, APA, [...]

Avoiding the Habits of Unsuccessful Students

Many self-help articles discuss tips on how students can survive and excel at school. To give you something new, here’s a list of habits that are common among highly unsuccessful students and what you can do to avoid such tempting habits. Not looking at the bigger picture Highly unsuccessful students do not look at the [...]

Where to find graduate school scholarship grants

Quality graduate school education doesn’t come cheap. Especially for students whose families earn a meager income, applying for graduate school can take extensive financial planning just to accommodate the anticipated expenses. The good news is, there are financial aid institutions and organizations that grant loans and scholarships to get you through graduate school. FAFSA An [...]

What Are the Top Five Most Prestigious Graduate School Programs in the Country?

Rankings of business schools and graduate school programs can be quite controversial and trifling. To date, there is no single authoritative body that ranks graduate school programs in the US. Different organizations and institutions employ different methodologies in gathering and analyzing their data, which consequently yield varying results. The methodologies used are often based on [...]