Category — Grad School Resources

What if your career path is in health care, and you desire to go to grad school? What are your options? I recently stumbled upon healthdegrees.com, a resource for folks looking to learn about degrees in health care. Recently they published an article on Health Care Programs for Prospective Grad Students.

Specifically they pointed out some management degrees that are fairly interesting.

The most common master’s degrees in the field of health care administration and health care management are:

• MHA: Master of Health Administration

• MHA: Master of Health Care Administration

• MHSA: Master of Health Services Administration

• MPH: Master of Public Health

• MBA: Master of Business Administration: Health Sector Concentration

Many people don’t realize how specialized the education is for health care managers, there’s a lot that must go into this and it’s a very rewarding career path.

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If I quality MRU will give me the money I need to pay for Grad School, and in return I will pay my loan back based on future income. Rates for graduate students start at 0.1% per $1,000, for up to 10 years, with a maximum rate of 0.4% per $1,000, depending on such things as my major, my employer, and my academic performance. Amazing. Wish me luck.

Graduate school is the last refuge from the rat race. Half the people I went to college with are stuck behind desks doing jobs they don’t like or learn from. Imagine going to college only to end up working at Circuit City for the rest of your adult life. Doesn’t sound like view of paradise. Grad school can provide you the edge that you need to get ahead in the career driven workplace. However what if you do find another opportunity before you decide to pursue grad school, or you find out this lifestyle just isn’t for you.

Many people begin graduate school and never finish. This is especially true for those pursuing Phds. Some of these people quit for financial reasons, but many leave because they find that the life they’re living is unacceptable and just not what they envisioned for their life when they started out.

A friend of mine said recently while the path he set out was clear, he found out later that the person he had become had changed and Grad School was no longer neccesary. So it’s not for everyone but the journey is often what matters. My brother always said he’d never go to Grad School, last year he got his Phd in Physics and is looking forward to an enjoyable career in Renewable Energy Research. Goes to show you that people can change and you should always match your life with the school and the educational path that is best for you.

I recently had a friend send me an amazing link to some Graduate School Programs Applications that is provided online by The Princeton Review.

Pretty Exhaustive and Amazing, hope this helps you.

Project Gutenberg has long been a favorite of mine for free books online, from classics to unknown texts this is an amazing place to go for casual reading or research. With thousands of books available for download its well worth checking out.

WikiBooks, run by the Wikipedia Foundation is another great source of free or open source books that will help meet your researching needs.

Lastly if you are just looking to do some comparision shopping on textbooks I’d strongly recommend CompareTextbook.com it’s a simple comparison shopping engine for new and used textbooks that could help save you thousands of dollars on text books next semester.

Every year US News and World report puts out a guide that you can find at your local Barnes and Noble, or other local bookstore the guide is all about Graduate Schools. This video I found on the website after checking out the online version of the guide. It lists some of the grad school trends of 2008.