更高的收入潜力

• Ph.D. Degree - $100,000 or more - approximately $3.7 million over their lifetime
• Master's Degree - $63,000 - approximately $3.2 million over their lifetime
• Bachelor's Degree - $55,700 - approximately $2.7 million over their lifetime

更多的工作机会

• A greater ability to think analytically
• Discipline to complete task from beginning to end
• Equipped with professional career networks

Job satisfaction and job stability

• Working in fields of interest
• Increased ability for job advancement
• Job satisfaction that has led to overall satisfaction with life

Ability to communicate more effectively

• Positive impact on written and verbal communication skills
• 沟通清楚, concisely and persuasively will help with landing the perfect job as well as improve career advancement and influence interpersonal relationships

Greater benefit to your family

• Major impact on well-being of families, especially children
• Families are better off 社会ly and economically
• Children are more likely to earn college degrees
• College degrees have a ripple effect to influence future well-being  

Revisit your career path and review our 研究生课程 that will help guide your goals and objectives. 寻找学术顾问, 教师, researchers or industry leaders to discuss career goals and options to help formulate an academic career plan including your marketability for employment upon graduation. 

Look for 研究生课程 that provide:

• 研究生 degree closely linked with a chosen work-related field 
• An academic curriculum that offers the best possible opportunities that enable networking opportunities 
• Interaction with academic/industry leadership to acquire skills to enter a workplace as a professional 

1. Review application deadlines and requirements by visiting 奥克兰.edu/grad/programs 
2. Contact academic department or 教师 advisor to explore program specifics and requirements 
3. 参加一个 事件 where you will have the opportunity to visit campus, meet with program representatives and discover all that OU has to offer 
4. 提交的应用程序 and required materials by deadline dates

共同的挑战

• 找到平衡 
• 保持自信 
• 完美主义 

主要职责

• Prepare for graduate student roles 
• 促进学术诚信 & respect intellectual process 
• Keep academic communication channels open 
• 维护责任 

研究生 student time management

• 目标设定-明确 & 可以实现的 
• 设置优先级 & 建立边界 
• Establish project plan allowing for flexibility 
• 对大学保持警惕 & 行政的最后期限 

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• Read critically considering context & 的角度来看 
• Use academic writing conventions for self-improvement 
• 研究生水平的作业 
• 创建 & utilize student work/support networks 

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