{"id":4366,"date":"2014-04-16T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/?page_id=4366"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:16:57","slug":"pursuing-graduate-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/students\/pursuing-graduate-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing Graduate School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/files\/2018\/03\/PursuingGradSchool-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Reasons for pursuing an advanced degree include. 1. To increase depth of knowledge and\/or area of specialization 2. To develop research, teaching, and other skills 3. To improve employment prospects in areas of interest 4. To enhance earning and career advancement potential 5. To heighten credibility and recognition of expertise\" class=\"wp-image-7381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/files\/2018\/03\/PursuingGradSchool-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/files\/2018\/03\/PursuingGradSchool-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--callout-set\">\n\t<div class=\"callout-set\">\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"iastate22-callout iastate22-callout--no-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iastate22-callout__content text-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Learn More About Pursuing Graduate School<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><p>Going to work in industry after receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree is the chosen path for about 87% of ISU engineers.\u00a0 The other 13% pursue additional academic study in engineering, law or medicine. There are a number of good reasons to pursue an advanced degree as shown in the following graphic, but there are also costs. This information was prepared to provide guidance to students considering additional education after a bachelor&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"link-set\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"link-set__link iastate22-button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   href=\"https:\/\/canvas.iastate.edu\/courses\/119465\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More in the Canvas Resource!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"arrow\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--button-set\">\n\t<div class=\"iastate22-button-set\">\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16616,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4366\/revisions\/16616"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}