When I was at Stanford, about to graduate in 1975 with degrees in economics and engineering, the job market was great.
The university ponied up funding, and the group grew to about 50 undergrads and graduate students over the years.
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Information from student loan repayments may also be used to provide more accurate information about what people can expect to earn once they graduate from courses.
To get in on tomorrow's, think about the advice given to Benjamin Braddock, the graduate played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 movie of the same name: plastics.
Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable has appeared to be more enthusiastic about a graduate tax than his Conservative universities minister, David Willetts.
If you think about it, this is literally the best time to graduate in 50 years.
She used the expert guidance of her mentor to make important decisions about her next steps toward graduate school admission and improving her English.
So the advice I have for any soon to graduate student is to really think hard about what you are good at.
The troubles "cut to the heart of everything Indiana people like to think about themselves: Don't cheat and graduate kids, " said Fred Glass, Indiana's third-year athletic director.
This adversely affects industry which, by some estimates, will need as many as 800, 000 new engineers by 2018, yet we graduate only about one quarter of the number to satisfy demand.
Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with the jobs they entered graduate school to get: tenured professorships.
In general, it was difficult to engage the graduate students in conversation, either about Neolithic man or about archeology.
Each year about 40% of graduates head to the U.S. for graduate school.
To uncover this bias, the researchers gave 10-page pitch books to 101 graduate business students, crammed with financial information about a hypothetical venture-capital investment.
Hartle said this change could be seen as desirable, prompting graduate and professional school students to think more carefully about the costs of their education.
About 44% of women 18 to 24 were enrolled in college or a graduate program in October 2010, compared with 38% of men the same age.
Michael Fenton, a May graduate of the University of Florida Hough Graduate School of Business in Gainesville, expected to learn about job openings from career services but quickly realized that the school's on-campus recruiting and other connections for jobs for its accelerated class may not be enough to get him hired.
She estimated that one-half of the graduate students at RPI come from abroad and about one-third to one-half of those come from China.
In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.
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They invested in college and graduate school only to have the same feelings their own mothers did about being able to stay home in some capacity to raise their children.
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Most stop serious study as soon as they graduate from college or university and even those that continue to learn about their field do so in a haphazard, half hearted way.
Giving evidence Miss Joyce - who shared a cell with Ms Lagwinowicz for about four weeks - told jurors that her cellmate had confessed to killing the Bath Spa University graduate along with her uncle and ex-boyfriend.
Sereno came across the specimen as a graduate student while doing research in a Harvard University laboratory and intended to write about it immediately.
The frenzy comes amid increasing debate about the skyrocketing cost of college tuition and the ease of borrowing that is leading many students to graduate with heavy debt loads.
About 64 percent of students who are the first in their families to go to college transfer or graduate within three years, compared to the national average of 40 percent.
"Students care a lot more nowadays about the economic value of going to business school, " says David Wilson, president of the Graduate Management Admission Council, which runs the standard admissions test.
Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, estimates that it would take a graduate student (the workhorse of all academic laboratories) about 130, 000 years to reconstruct the circuitry of such a column.
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