Getting into Graduate School - The Series

Should you go to graduate school in archaeology? How do you pick a school? What's the application process like? These are questions that only somebody who has been through the process can tell you; and fortunately, several former graduate students are willing to share their stories.

John Dockall's Graduate School Survival Links
John Dockall provides a good list of useful resources for the beginning grad student.

2000 National Doctoral Program Survey
From 32,000 student respondents to the survey by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS), comes an assessment of American doctoral programs.

GradSchools.com
A collection of schools around the planet that provide a graduate education in archaeology.

Graduate Fellowships in the Social Sciences
From Cornell University, a thick list of places for applying for graduate grants and dissertation research fellowships.

Graduate Student Resources
Some good advice from Robert Hatch at the University of Florida.

Survey of PhD Programs in Archaeology
From the Society for American Archaeology, results of a 1993 survey of professional archaeologists on what they feel are the most important characteristics of an outstanding PhD program (includes a listing of the perceived top 12 schools in the nation).

The Graduate Records Examination
The GRE "measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study", and you'll probably need to take it.

University Guide from Guardian Unlimited
The Guardian's annual guide to universities ranks them on the basis of a stringent series of staff and student scores.

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