<p>Help! I have agreed to help my stressed out senior daughter research grad schools and I am so frustrated. For college it was easy with collegeboard.com... all the info (size, number of applicants, % accepted etc) was all there with a click. I haven't been able to find a similar site for grad schools. I've tried gradschool.com, petersons, phds.org, and the individual college sites. My daughter has given me ten schools (for architecture) and she wants to know how many students in the program, whether or not they have a study abroad program and where, whether they have a design to build program, GPA average, and whether or not the school requires the GRE. I'm ready to pull my hair out. It's so incomplete and it's not all in one location that I can find. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!</p>
<p>Those places are good to start; however, you’ll have to go to the individual program sites to get more information. For phd.org, you can get more information on each if you check on three programs to do a comparison.</p>
<p>Graduate programs don’t have “study abroad programs.” Yes, students can and do go abroad to perform research, often over the summer or, in the case of PhD programs, after they’ve finished their course work. Depending on the program and level of support, the student pays for this through special funding or on her own.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>princetonreview.com is pretty good – just know you have to search by the actual archetictual school name, if you search by the University name, it will come up with the undergraduate program.</p>
<p>I doubt anybody on this site has failed to notice how little information there is online about graduate schools. I think this secrecy is a hold over from the days when academia kept to itself and graduate degrees weren’t necessary for many upper middle class careers. Anyway, the strategy that worked best for me was interacting with professionals in my field. I contacted professors on faculty at a number of different types of universities, exchanged emails with current and recently graduated grad students and spoke to directors of graduate programs. You might also want to suggest to your daughter that she could check out her university’s advising programs and pay her old professors a visit before she fades from their memory.</p>
<p>Though this is tangential to your question, past professors were by far the best resource I had for figuring out which graduate schools to apply to.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your advice. I’m glad to hear someone else besides me has found it difficult to seek grad school information on line (belevitt). I have suggested repeatedly that my daughter query her professors and she said they have not been helpful. I find that hard to believe, especially at her small school. But she is a stubborn taurus and a stressed out triple major right now so perhaps when she comes to her senses she will realize how valuable key players in her past four years can be. Had I not decided to enable her by helping her find information, I would probably contact the department head myself, but I’m not going to. I will tell her again of this forum and the advice you all have provided and hope that she takes it upon herself to probe further. Thank you!</p>