1. Graduate School Preparation
Are you ready?
ERAU Career Services Office 386.226.6054
C building, Room 408 www.erau.edu/career

2. Why go to grad school?
• Continue education directly after receiving
undergraduate degree
• Professionals return to further their education
and open new promotion/career opportunities
• Specialize in a specific area
• Strengthen job security
• Part of path to future career
(professor, doctor, lawyer)

3. Education Differences
Graduate Education Undergraduate Education
• Specialized Education • Broader Education
• Clear academic & career • First stepping stone to
goals career
• Fewer classes & shorter • Heavier class load per
overall time
commitment semester and longer
time commitment
• More intense, higher
level coursework & • Average outcomes are
expectations accepted easier

4. Benefits of Higher-level Education
• More specialized education studies and
research opportunities
• Allows more mastery of skills
• Can expand career options
• Could create greater marketability
• Entry-level to teaching at a university level
• Higher salary over career progression
• Lower unemployment rates

5. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/emp/emptab7.htm, 5/27/10

6. Career Considerations
Experience before graduate Flow-through or no experience
school before graduate school
• Specialize in career area of • Not as clear of areas of
interest interest/specialization
• Education not as applicable
• More mature perspective due to little, if any,
on graduate level studies professional experience
and application • Potentially lower income &
• Typically more career fewer opportunities initially
options due to having • Educationally qualified but
experientially not as qualified
experience
• Extremely important to
• Command higher salaries participate in undergraduate
and/or graduate level
internships before graduating

7. Grad School Resources
• Peterson’s Guide
• Princeton Review
• Faculty – ERAU and/or other universities of
interest
• ERAU Career Services website -
http://www.erau.edu/career/grad_school.html

8. Graduate School
Admissions Process
Keith A. Deaton Jr.
Student Center Annex Rm. 260
Keith.Deaton@erau.edu or
386.226.7166

9. Documents Needed
o Application-App. fee
o Statement of Objective/Intent
o Resume/CV
o Letters of Recommendation
o GRE or GMAT
o Official Transcripts
o Essay or interview if required

10. ERAU Requirements
o Application-App. Fee waived if you come to
my office
o Statement of Objective
o Resume
o Transcripts (I get these, no charge)
o Three letters of recommendation
o GMAT or GRE-depends on program

11. Questions to ask
o Can you waive application fee?
o What exams are required?
o Assistantships or scholarships offered and how
to apply?
o Prerequisites and how long will it take to
complete?
o When are the deadlines to apply?

12. Questions??