Graduate School Information

 

Messiah College Resources:

Career Center Homepage

The Career Center Homepage provides a great deal of information about how to think through the process of choosing a career. Invaluable for those who are undecided about what they want to do with their English major, or are thinking about graduate school.

Information about Internships

Internships and other work experience can only help your applications to graduate school. This is Messiah's page that can keep you informed about the various possibilities.

Finding and Evaluating Graduate Programs: Other Web Resources

Search for Graduate Programs

U.S. News Rankings:

This page is not as useful as it once was because they do not give complete listings. Moreover, The U.S. News rankings should not be taken as absolutely authoritative. However, in English 80% of the higher education jobs are going to graduates of 20% of the schools. You should be aware of this unpleasant fact if you decide to go into college teaching and decide to go to a doctoral program that is not listed in the top 25 or so schools in the U.S. News list

 

Funding Graduate School:

FreeSearch: http://www.freschinfo.com/

This site allows you to search for scholarships and fellowships for graduate and undergraduate study.

Also think about getting the following book via interlibrary loan. Schlachter, Gail Ann, and R. David Weber. Money for Graduate Students in the Humanities 1996­1998. San Carlos, CA: Reference Service Press, 1996.