{"id":8429,"date":"2014-07-21T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/career\/?page_id=8429"},"modified":"2024-08-23T23:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T03:28:05","slug":"graduate-school-advising-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/graduate-school-advising-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School Support &#038; Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate education <\/strong>Graduate education involves a more narrowly focused program of study than undergraduate work. There are a wide variety of programs. You may earn a degree that is either academic or professional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic degrees<\/strong> (e.g., M.A., M.S., Ph.D.) involve acquiring and communicating new knowledge through original research, and are awarded in almost all disciplines (e.g. arts and humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional degrees<\/strong> emphasize the practical application of knowledge and skills and may be earned in areas such as: medicine (M.D. or D.O.), law (J.D.), business (M.B.A.), and education (M.Ed.). Other degrees in specialized fields include: fine arts (M.F.A.), library science (M.L.S.) and social work (M.S.W.).<\/p>\n<p>Check out these links for additional support and resources for your graduate school journey:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/graduate-school-resources-at-bates\/\">Graduate School Resources at Bates<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/graduate-professional-school-events\/#grad-school-101-workshop\">Grad School 101 Workshop<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/graduate-professional-school-events\/#graduate-school-info-sessions-in-person-virtual\">Graduate School Info Sessions \u2013 In-Person &amp; Virtual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebestschools.org\/resources\/should-i-go-to-grad-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Graduate School?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/online-directories-and-resources-to-research-graduate-programs\/\">Online Directories and Resources to Research Programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/gre\/\">Graduate Record Examinations (GRE)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/personal-statement-statement-of-intent\/\">Personal Statement\/Statement of Intent<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/letters-of-recommendation\/\">Letters of Recommendation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/graduate-school-funding\/\">Graduate School Funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dxhMfEEDvFg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate education Graduate education involves a more narrowly focused program of study&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-8429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23810,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8429\/revisions\/23810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}