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On schools that award advanced academic degrees, such as master's and doctoral degrees. This tag is mainly for questions about the structure and organization of a graduate school or the fundamental experience of being a graduate student. Do not use this tag for questions about research in graduate school (use [research] instead), coursework in graduate school (use [coursework]), gaining admissions to graduate school (use [graduate-admissions]), etc.
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How to find out where a College's Graduates are now?
If your looking at PhD's who presumably wanted to go on to academic careers, and if you can get a list of the graduates from a particular year, then you can generally track those people down by search …
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Question about leaving supervisor
This is a fairly common situation, but there are lots of ways in which it can be handled. A lot depends on the specifics of your situation and how well your advisor and your current department are ge …
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How free are graduate students to choose research topics given their department?
For students in the physical sciences and engineering, a major issue is getting funding to pay for required research equipment and supplies. This nearly always comes from a grant that has been awarde …
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What factors determine acceptance to top graduate program in Engineering?
An important factor is where the student did their undergraduate work. The admissions committee will be familiar with many undergraduate institutions that have good reputations and some that have bad …
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Accepted
1-year professional masters at excellent school or 2-year research-oriented masters at great...
One year course based MS degree programs are typically "terminal degrees" designed for students who want to work in industry and not pursue a PhD and an academic career. If you want to work in indust …
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Should I expect to be invited to visit the grad schools I was admitted to?
In the US context, for most graduate programs in science or engineering fields, at relatively wealthy and prestigious institutions, it's quite normal for departments to pay travel expenses for prospec …
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How do I find mathematics PhD programs that have faculty within a certain field?
The AMS has a "Find a Graduate Program" website that lets you search by very broad categories. See
https://www.ams.org/find-graduate-programs?prog_type=PHD
Unfortunately, the categories are relativel …
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Traveling with textbooks
Have you considered using ebooks in situations where they're available and reasonably priced (and don't have Digital Rights Management)?
A few years ago when I went to Los Angeles for a sabbatical …
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Are three year degrees from India equivalent to Four years degree in the US?
Many universities in the US will not admit students from India (or other commonwealth countries) with 3 year bachelors degrees into graduate programs. In such cases the expectation is that students w …
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Are there any differences in how new vs. well-established professors select students?
In deciding whether or not to take on a graduate student advisee, the main factors are
Funding. The student will either need their own or departmental funding (by e.g. a fellowship or teaching assi …
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Course Requirements for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Phd admission
I would also like to know if its possible what kind of undergraduate
requirements does an Applied Maths program usually look into? Would I
be correct in assuming that they won't be looking in t …
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Special student Harvard in Mathematics
You need to check on the rules at Harvard, but in general, "special student" generally means that a student is allowed to take courses but not to get a degree from the university. The phrase "non-deg …
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Are undergraduate math courses required to do well on the GRE subject test?
It's difficult to answer this question because a lot depends on the programs that you're applying to and on the undergraduate program that you're currently in (because not all undergraduate programs a …
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How do I ask to draft recommendation letters for my references?
Short of asking to draft the letter (which many letter writers consider inappropriate), you can simply ask the letter writer to address particular issues in your letter. You should also supply copie …
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What should I be doing now to get a good recommendation letter as a graduate student?
One suggestion is to get a good teaching reference if you're working as a TA. Most departments have one or more faculty who supervise graduate student TA's. If you're actually leading a recitation s …
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