Graduate & Professional School: Graduate School

• Check the website for the schools you are considering

• Follow the schools you are interested in through the various social media outlets (facebook, twitter, etc.)  to get a feel for the culture

• Talk with alumni about the school

• Ask people who work in your field of interest about the school they attended

Is the school you want to attend accredited?

"The goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by institutions of higher education meets acceptable levels of quality. Accrediting agencies, which are private educational associations of regional or national scope, develop evaluation criteria and conduct peer evaluations to assess whether or not those criteria are met. Institutions and/or programs that request an agency's evaluation and that meet an agency's criteria are then "accredited" by that agency."

For more information on accreditation in the United States, please visit: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.

There are a number of accrediting institutions, some are listed below.