Grad School News
Adding value with a specialized graduate business degree
Though the popularity of the MBA qualification has grown steadily over the last ten years, the explosion in masters’ degrees catering for specific subject or career areas is staggering. This is why we continue to see demand for more specific business, economics and commerce related degrees –... [more]
The Graduate Student Interview - Shanghai
For our August newsletter we head to Shanghai to meet 24 year-old Hie Cheng Feng, a current student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University pursuing an undergraduate degree in economics. [more]
Why Study a PhD?
For many interested in the more academic side of life, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree is the ultimate recognition of educational and intellectual ability. [more]
Five weeks before the start of the QS World Grad School Tour 2007!
Preparations for the 2007 QS World Grad School Tour, due to be held in 40 cities around the world, are now almost complete. When the curtain goes up on the first event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 27, 150 institutions will have signed up for the world’s largest and most comprehensive graduate... [more]
Graduate study opportunities in Singapore
Driven by excellence, a Singapore education offers a broad-based curriculum and global perspective that equips students with qualifications and training well regarded internationally for their quality and relevance to meeting the new challenges of a dynamic, knowledge-based economy. [more]
Expert's View - QS Applicant's Research 2007
It’s interesting to see how long and in what way prospective graduate students are most likely to follow their chosen course of study abroad. Much can be drawn from the latest findings from the QS Applicant Research, an online survey of more than 4,000 international applicants to graduate programs... [more]
Meet universities face-to-face – the essential guide to education fairs
The advent of the Internet has reduced much of the need for face-to-face contact with individual universities but the opportunity to talk to someone in person should never be passed by as a way of gathering a valuable insight into what will be a life-changing decision to go and study for a graduate... [more]
Choosing an international graduate school
Whatever your reason for deciding to apply for graduate school, you’ll want to find the program that is right for you and do everything you can to make sure that your graduate experience is successful. Sound and basic advice can go along way in ensuring that you find exactly what you’re looking for... [more]
Who are all the graduate students?
Reading this as a prospective graduate student, you will know exactly who you are. But what about the other half a million or more new graduate students considering studying internationally this year? [more]
Tell a friend about the QS World Grad School Tour 2007
There is a very good chance that you registered and attended a QS World Grad School Tour event last year in a city near you. If you did then you will know what a great benefit meeting an admissions officer or member of academic staff from a university that you are interested in really... [more]
Graduate school and programs in Denmark
As a destination for your graduate program, Denmark is very difficult to beat with its wide range of taught and research degrees delivered in the English language, excellent academic and social facilities, reasonably priced tuition and an open and extremely modern society.
The Graduate Student Interview - New Delhi
For our June newsletter we brave the heat of the New Delhi summer in India to meet 25 year-old Pranay Kumar, a recent graduate from the University of Delhi in engineering.
The Expert’s View – Global Reach
It will sound like an extremely obvious thing to say but the world is truly a very large place! Nowhere is this more true than in the world of international graduate study choice. Reflecting on the 2007 edition of the QS Applicant Research, out this month, a staggering 45 different countries were... [more]
The Top Universities website
As QS research indicates, the Internet and specialized websites are essential in helping you investigate your choices as a prospective graduate student. The Top Universities website, www.topuniversities.com, is one such resource that is intended to answer as many of your questions as possible in... [more]
Studying graduate education programs
Although the fields of business and engineering dominate the subject areas graduate students are currently pursuing, an increasing number are looking to more specialized fields for their advanced degrees. [more]


