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Duke Resources for Pregraduate Advising

Pregraduate Study Advising Office

Departmental Ph.D. Advisors

Undergraduate Research Support Office

Graduate and Professional School Day. This event is hosted by Trinity College in alternate years and will be held October 19, 2006, and thereafter in 2008. Representatives from invited schools will be available throughout the Bryan Center for informal conversations. Note that graduate school admissions offices do not participate in recruiting events as frequently as do professional schools so the Pregraduate Study Advising Office schedules at least one special information seesion for students interested in continuing for the Ph.D. degree. Watch the calendar for this fall event.

Society of Duke Fellows’ Undergraduate Forum. Graduate students at Duke combine in this evening forum to advise undergraduates about applying for admission and for graduate fellowships. Watch the calendar (link ) for this fall semester event.

Guides to Graduate Study. Perkins Library has provided an on-line index of published guides to graduate programs in specific disciplines. The actual publications, available in the reference section, include information such as tuition rates, admission requirements, programs offered, and other data for graduate programs in American colleges and universities. For more specific information on a particular school, there is a collection of college catalogs on microfiche housed in the Newspapers & Microforms Department, but it is much easier to use internet sources.

The Graduate School. As a basis for comparison, the Graduate School of Duke University should be familiar to all undergraduates who plan to pursue a research doctorate. Note, in particular, the profiles of Duke Ph.D. recipients.

Preprofessional advising at Duke. See the links for prebusiness, prehealth and prelaw on the academic advising page of Trinity College.

The Academic’s Handbook. 1995. Edited by A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D. Goodwin, Second Edition, Duke University Press. Essays by Duke’s own faculty and administrators provide insight into careers in academia, the most common work environment for those earning the Ph.D.