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Preparing For Graduate School

Career Services Center provides the following services and resources to JSU students and alumni to help choose a major, develop a personal career plan, learn job search skills and find employment. To discover more, click one of the categories below.

	Choosing a Major/Career Learn more details about approaching a career and/or deciding upon your major.		Preparing for Graduate School Tools to help you in your preparation for graduate school
	Job Search Preparation Prepare for your job search with these helpful resources.		Finding Jobs & Internships Search for temporary and full-time employment to enhance your educational experience.

Is graduate school in your future?

Graduate and Professional Schools Day is a service to junior, senior, and graduate students who contemplate further study upon their graduation from Jackson State. This event occurs every September.

As you near completion of your undergraduate degree, you will be faced with new, sometimes difficult, decisions about what to do next. The options are many — one is that you might wish to continue your education by attending graduate school or professional school.

Making the decision to attend graduate or professional school can sometimes be a hectic process. But, once you have reached this decision, it’s time for the next steps to finding and getting into a graduate program.

FIRST STEP: Prepare

While preparing to apply to graduate or professional school there are three questions to consider:

• What do I want to do?

• Who has the program?

• Which admissions test is needed?

SECOND STEP: Apply

Once you have answered the above questions and you’ve narrowed your program choice, it’s time to apply.

• Prepare, take and send scores for the appropriate admissions test

• Request applications

• Prepare personal statement

• Request transcripts

• Obtain letters from references