Getting In To Grad School

     An Applicant's Guide to Graduate School Admissions

Books - Succeeding When You Get There; OR, What To Be Aware of Even Before You Apply

  • Stockwell, Anne. The Guerrilla Guide to Mastering Student Loan Debt. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
  • Peters, Robert. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Masters or a Ph.D. New York: Noonday Press, 1992.
  • Hawley, Peggy. Being Bright Isn't Enough: The Unwritten Rules of Doctoral Study. Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 1993.
  • Moore, Richard W. Winning the Ph.D. Game. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985.
  • Cambra, Ann E. Graduate Students' Survival Guide. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1984.
  • Dukelow, W. Richard. Graduate Student Survival. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1980.
  • Sanford, Mark. Making it in Graduate School. Berkeley, CA: Montaigne, 1976.
  • Mitchell, Lesli. The Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide: Getting In, Getting Money, Exams and Classes, the Profs, the Thesis/Dissertation. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 1996.
  • Castrovilla, Mari and Jeanne Marie Healy, eds. Graduate School Guide: 1996. New Rochelle, NY: School Guide Publications, 1996.
  • Rossman, Mark H. Negotiating Graduate School: A Guide for Graduate Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.
  • Barner, James. Conquering Graduate School: What You Need to Know. Plainfield, IL: Wishbone Pub., 1995.
  • Phillips, Estelle. How to Get a Ph.D. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1994.
  • Allen, George. The Graduate Student's Guide to Theses and Dissertations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1984.
  • Bowen, William and Neil L. Rudenstine. In Pursuit of the Ph.D. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1992.
  • Gustafson, Melanie. Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual for Women and Men. Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1991.
  • Anderson, Melissa S., ed. The Experience of Being in Graduate School: An Exploration. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
  • Pittman, Von V. Surviving Graduate School Part Time. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997.
  • Hammon, Darrel L. Completing Graduate School Long Distance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.
  • University of Iowa Video Center. What is Expected of Graduate Students in the United States [videorecording]. Washington, D.C.: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, 1982.
  • Rittner, Barbara. The Women's Guide to Surviving Graduate School. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.
  • Jones, Jessie M., Margaret E. Goertz, and Charlotte V. Kuhn. Minorities in Graduate Education: Pipeline, Policy, and Practice. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1992.
  • Isaac, Alicia. The African American Student's Guide to Surviving Graduate School. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience: Implications for Policy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
  • Hauptman, Arthur M. Students in Graduate and Professional Education: What We Know and Need to Know. Washington, DC: Association of American Universities, 1986.
  • Meyer, Katrina Anne. Graduate Education Study. Olympia, WA: Higher Education Coordinating Board, 1991.
  • Pelikan, Jaroslav. Scholarship and Its Survival: Questions on the Idea of Graduate Education. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation, 1983.
  • Nerad, Maresi, Raymond June, and Debra Sands Miller. Graduate Education in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.
  • Storr, Richard J. The Beginnings of Graduate Education in America. New York, Arno Press, 1953 [reprint, 1969].
  • Smith, Bruce L. R., editor. The State of Graduate Education. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1985.
  • Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S. and the Graduate Record Examinations Board. Recent Developments in Graduate Programs. Washington, DC: The Council, 1982.
  • Karolyi, Margaret S. All But the Dissertation Ph.D. thesis, Kent State University, 1993.
  • Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council. The Path to the Ph.D.: Measuring Graduate Attrition in the Sciences and Humanities. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.




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