10 Top Reasons to go to Grad School

1. Advance Your Career ----> Most professionals, especially doctors, engineers and scientists, need PhDs. Others that used to get by with BAs now need at least a master's degree.
2. Do Your Personal Best ----> Grad school is a great place to test your metal.
3. Joy of Learning ----> Grad school can give more of what you love to do, and gives you the opportunity to become an expert in your field.
4. Be Paid to Learn ----> As a grad student, you get paid to work as a teaching assistant or research assistant, which usually pays three times more than minimum wage and includes some benefits and vacation pay. What's more, you get the inside track on how your professors evaluate students' work.
5. Rite of Passage ----> After four years as a lowly undergrad, you finally earn some respect, and you can call your professors by their first name. You're part of the hood, literally.
6. Place of Refuge ----> Grad school is a good place to park yourself while you figure out what you want to be when you grow up. It also gives you a respectable excuse not to work.
7. Expand Your Mind ----> There's no better place than grad school for a complete mental workout.
8. Earn Prestige ----> A graduate degree will open doors to not only a myriad of professions, but also to the inner circle: the more letters trailing your name, the closer you get to the inner sanctum.
9. Build Your Network ----> Grad school will give you the opportunity to meet many people with diverse knowledge and experiences, many of them famous. Not only do you get to rub shoulders with the best and brightest, but you also get to establish valuable contacts that will serve you well in your future career.
10. Expand Your Horizon ----> Grad school gives you the opportunity to live and work with people all over the world.

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