Should You Consider a Pre-doc?
While pre-doctoral programs are not optimal choices for everyone, they do benefit a significant number of aspiring doctoral students and we believe they are far too often overlooked. We thought [...]
The Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy
Johns Hopkins University announced earlier today that it will open a School of Government and Policy at its Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. This will be the first new academic division Johns [...]
High Salaries for UC Berkeley Graduates
Business schools, law schools, and medical schools are not the only graduate programs with well-paying jobs for their alumni. Big Tech has been paying big salaries for years and UC Berkeley is an [...]
Graduates of Elite Masters Programs can Have ROI Concerns
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a great article about the risks of blindly pursuing any random master’s program at a prestigious university. Even at the top schools (the [...]
Are Accelerated Graduate Degree Programs Worth It?
Accelerated graduate degree programs usually shave a year off the graduate degree completion time. They do this by allowing undergraduate students to begin taking graduate level courses alongside [...]
The Case Against the Mid-career Degree
We get a significant amount of calls from prospective mid-career graduate school applicants. And, more times than not, a short and complimentary phone call is all that is needed to help steer [...]