Graduate / Professional School

Career Center Services:

Are you thinking about graduate school? Is medical, dental, or law school on your career horizon? The PSU Career Center has resources and services to help you with decision-making and the application process. We'll help you confirm your career goal, research the appropriate educational path, learn how to identify graduate/professional school programs and write statements of purpose, as well as prepare for a graduate/professional school interviews.

Schedule an appointment with a career counselor to:

  • Discuss your career decision.
  • Review your admissions essay/statement of purpose.
  • Schedule a mock interview.

Each fall quarter, the Career Center hosts Don Asher who speaks on the graduate school application process. If you are not able to attend the presentation you can view Don Asher's videotape "Getting Into Highly Competitive Graduate Schools" in the PSU Career Center.

View a presentation on getting into graduate school (geared toward students of foreign languages and literatures), based on the work of Don Asher. By Cheryl Hollatz-Wisely, Career Counselor, of the PSU Career Center

The PSU Career Center has several books in its library that may be of interest:

  • Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way Into the Graduate School of Your Choice by Donald Asher, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California c 2000.
  • Paying for Graduate School Without Going Broke, 2005 Edition, Princeton Review Publishing, c 2004.
  • Getting In: A Step-by-Step Plan for Gaining Admission to Graduate School in Psychology, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., c 1997.
  • Game Plan for Getting Into Medical School, C.S. Jewell, Peterson's/Thomson Learning, c 2000.
  • Game Plan for Getting Into Law School, William G. Weaver, J.D., Ph.D., Peterson's/Thomson Learning, c 2000.
  • Game Plan for Getting Into Business School, Michele F. Kornegay, Peterson's/Thomson Learning, c 2000.
  • The Law School Buzz Book, Vault, Inc., c 2005.
  • The Business School Buzz Book, Vault, Inc., c 2005.
PSU Graduate Programs and Certificates.