Archive for the ‘ Graduate School ’ Category

Best Careers: Management Consultants + Analysts

Management Consultants made CareerJournal’s Best Careers List. Their ranking criteria were based on which careers make for happy and satisfied working folks. Since the list wasn’t compiled based on salary alone, and instead was based on not being miserable in your career, I applaud the list and the editors of CareerJournal.com for initiating the research. [ READ MORE ]

Sustainability Degree Offered at Arizona State University

Do you remember, back in the day, when it was crazy talk that the world might be round? And how cranky the Catholic Church became when Galileo started spouting off about the freakishly scientific Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around (as God intended because Man is [ READ MORE ]

Dual Academic Careers

Do smarty-pants professor types feel they need a bigger challenge? Was defending their dissertation not enough? All of those years of undergraduate and graduate work, living somewhere near the poverty line, working and striving for those extra letters after their names? Why do obviously intelligent humans do this to themselves? Because they want to spend [ READ MORE ]

Value of a College Degree

According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, college graduates with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $51,554 in 2004. These numbers hold true for men and women in every racial and ethnic group. Graduate School: Adults with advanced college degrees earned an average of $78,093. Check out the salary facts of [ READ MORE ]

Extra-Marital Sex More Likely in Graduate Degree Holders

Forbes Magazine printed a few opinion pieces about the recent findings in several social science journals that two career couprles run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. Not surprising considering how stressful it can be to juggle life, family, and career. Evidently male breadwinner marriages are most stable. I was surprised by these [ READ MORE ]

MBA Students at Risk for Identity Theft

July 12th 2006 The University of Iowa announced that students in its MBA program should take precautions after a laptop computer containing personal information was stolen. Officials sent letters to 280 students in the program after the laptop was stolen on June 30th from a faculty member’s business office in Davenport. It contained names, Social [ READ MORE ]