Graduate School Fair opens doors

This past Wednesday, twenty-three colleges and universities recruited and informed students about the opportunities their schools offered. These schools offered more programs than the breadth of majors offered at Rose-Hulman including, law school, management, and medicine.

Each of the schools were impressed with the caliber and quality of the student body at Rose-Hulman. Recruiting for the University of Texas at Arlington was Rose-Hulman alumnus Joseph Moder, who is currently studying for his master’s degree in microrobotics. “The work is different in graduate school…it depends on your degree.”

Dan Moore, Associate Dean of the Faculty, was presenting Rose-Hulman’s graduate studies programs. The graduate programs offered by Rose-Hulman are biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and computer, environmental, mechanical, and optical engineering as well as engineering management. Rose-Hulman also offers Graduate Assistantships, where graduate students are assigned to jobs as needed, as well as Research Assistantships, where graduate students work for a faculty member who received funding.

The students seemed to be focused on getting information about schools as opposed to selling themselves. “I am a senior, I am looking at grad schools” seemed to be a recurring theme among those present. Matthew DeVries explained his strategy as, “It is easier to keep all my options open then to close one too soon.”

For those considering graduate school, the representative from Michigan Technological University offered the following advice. Get to know you professors in order to get good recommendations. You need to take the GRE general test as well as the subject test in the area that you are considering study in. Most schools have their deadlines for fall admission around the beginning of December.