The OECD's compendium also shows that graduate jobs fared better during the global recession.

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One unique way to garner buy-in: Offer your manager input into the electives you take during the program, suggests Liz Kasberg, also a graduate Kenan-Flager.

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"Someone bought us a round of drinks during happy hour at the bar that day, " says Will Staruk, a graduate student and the team's project manager.

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During his career working for Wall Street investment banks, the Yale University Law School graduate had collected Picasso artwork, driven a Rolls Royce and flew his own plane.

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In 1964, they moved to Iowa City, where Sam did graduate work in fine arts at the University of Iowa, painting during the day and working as a janitor at night.

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Sotomayor got a taste of such ignorance in her third year of law school, when during a recruitment dinner, a lawyer from a Washington law firm asked the summa cum laude graduate from Princeton whether she thought she would have gotten into Yale Law School if she hadn't been Hispanic.

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While working towards his graduate degree he had the good fortune of landing a summer job at EA during the height of the gaming explosion in Seattle.

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Even though his tuition has almost doubled during his tenure as a student at the University of California, we were fortunate that he will be able to graduate without student loan debt.

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