Advice for Graduate Students


This page is intended as a help for current graduate students and for students thinking about applying for graduate studies. Graduate student advisors may also find the information useful.

Should I go to graduate school?

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology helps you answer this question and many more like it. Just click here for advice.

Admission

On his web-page Getting In: An Applicant's Guide to Graduate School Admissions, David T. Burrell gives advice on how to get into graduate school. Be sure to check out his links section which is full of useful pointers.

U.S.News has a page on America's Best Graduate Schools. The page contains articles on how to pick the right graduate schools and it contains lists of the best American graduate schools in all possible fields.

How to Succeed in Graduate School

Marie desJardins has written a paper on How to Succeed in Graduate School. It is a must to read it -- both for graduate students and their advisors! It is available as postscript and earlier versions of the paper are available as HTML.

Wanda Pratt has a page titled Graduate Student Advice and Research Survival Guide. It is written in "bullet form" and contains lots of useful advice for graduate students.

Ph.D. Students in Denmark

The Ph.D.-Forening (Ph.D. Students' Union) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has a page (in Danish) with information relevant for Danish Ph.D. students.

The Ph.D.-Forening ved NF at Aarhus University has a homepage. So does Ph.D. Foreningen at the University of Copenhagen.


Poul Frederick Williams
E-mail: pfw@it-c.dk
Homepage: www.it-c.dk/people/pfw