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Graduate and Professional Schools Guide

Identify graduate or professional schools that match your career goals and develop your presentation as a graduate/professional study candidate for further study. Use this resource to obtain information on graduate/professional school programs through a variety of sources.

Resources and Guides

Two students sit on a bench outsideGradschools.com
Search from over 60,000 master’s degrees, doctorate/doctoral degrees, PhD’s and graduate certificate programs.

US News-Rankings
U.S. News analyzed more than 12,000 graduate programs to bring you this years rankings. Select a discipline for access to our top program rankings.

Peterson’s
Comprehensive guide to college information.

Princeton Review
The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers.

Affordable Colleges Online
Provides in-depth, expert-driven data and information about online colleges, degree programs and courses. Search by state, major, or degree level.

 

  • Graduate Management Programs: Accepted by more than 5,800 business and management programs worldwide, for nearly sixty years, the GMAT exam has been the test of choice by the world’s business leaders to get into the world’s leading business schools for one reason – it works. Quite simply, no other exam lets you showcase the skills that matter most in the business school classroom and in your career.
  • Top-Law-Schools.com: Top Law Schools consolidates law school rankings, thereby giving you necessary information to help determine which law schools you should apply to. The variability in these rankings should illustrate that the 2013 law school rankings can act only as a guide, and that you should be the final evaluator of what law school is best for you.
  • Law School Administration Council (LSAC): The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation that provides unique, state-of-the-art products and services to ease the admission process for law schools and their applicants worldwide. Currently, 218 law schools in the United States, Canada, and Australia are members of the Council and benefit from LSAC’s services. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association are LSAC members, as are Canadian law schools recognized by a provincial or territorial law society or government agency. Many nonmember law schools also take advantage of LSAC’s services. For all users, LSAC strives to provide the highest quality of products, services, and customer service.
  • Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges: The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) provides leadership for and promotes excellence in academic veterinary medicine to prepare the veterinary workforce with the scientific knowledge and skills required to meet societal needs through the protection of animal health, the relief of animal suffering, the conservation of animal resources, the promotion of public health, and the advancement of medical knowledge.
  • GRE-Graduate Record Exam: Whether you are planning to go to graduate school or business school — or just exploring your options — you are taking an important step toward your future. It is a smart move to show schools your best and with the GRE® revised General Test, you can! That’s the Power of Confidence — only with the GRE revised General Test.
  • GMAT-Graduate Management Admissions Test : The GRE revised General Test measures your verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking and analytical writing skills — skills that have been developed over a long period of time and are not related to a specific field of study but are important for all. Here’s a look at content covered in the three test sections — Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning and Analytical Writing.
  • MCAT-Medical College Admissions Test: The Medical College Admission Test® (MCAT®) is a standardized, multiple-choice examination designed to assess the examinee’s problem solving, critical thinking, and knowledge of science concepts and principles prerequisite to the study of medicine. Scores are reported in Physical Sciences, Verbal Reasoning, and Biological Sciences.
  • LSAT-Law School Admissions Test : The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day, standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. The test is an integral part of the law school admission process in the United States, Canada, and a growing number of other countries. It provides a standard measure of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants.
  • ETS: ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually — including the TOEFL® and TOEIC® tests, the GRE® General and Subject Tests and The Praxis Series™ assessments — in more than 180 countries, at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.