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How many graduate school applications can you expect in the coming year?

We’ve spotted five troubling trends aligning on the horizon that are likely to slacken demand for graduate school–significantly–beginning this year.

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People research their grad school options for a long time

How long do people research their grad school options? If you ever wondered, now we have an answer for you, from some data we’ve managed to wrestle out of our system. The average person spends about 18 months researching where to go to

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From Insights to Action: How To Develop A Recruiting Action Plan

Wondering why you need an action plan? Having data is great, but using it is far more valuable. Collecting data is only half the battle; it’s what you do

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Gradschoolmatch is to guidance like the microwave is to cooking

I’m not only old enough to remember the first microwave ovens, I’m old enough to remember that they were called radar ranges. Ack! But these machines have been on my mind since the early days of the Gradschoolmatch project. Our goal was

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"The Right Match": How Gradschoolmatch Launched One Student's Career

**The Right Match (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, September 8, 2016). ** [![Student who found perfect match in her new graduate program.](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/h_282,w_300/v1527623748/Screen-Shot-2017-01-16-at-11.42.58-AM-1_tzmk6c.png)](http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=

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Find students and engage them on Gradschoolmatch

[![control_panel](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/h_300,w_209/v1527623840/control_panel_zhlnlo.jpg)](https://blog.gradschoolmatch.com/content/images/2016/08/control_panel.jpg)The Gradschoolmatch Director’s control panelMost students have an influence network and start their graduate

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Choosing a grad school program is a classic forked-path problem

I’ve just returned from a long overdue break out west, spent in part on the streams and trails of the spectacular Absaroka wilderness area in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest. I intended to unplug from the grid completely and not consider work at

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A Perfect Match

“I’ve wanted to be a scientist since I was a child…Gradschoolmatch played a huge role in helping me find Vanderbilt and making my dream come true,” says Alyssa Rodriguez. Her enthusiasm for the platform came about after she failed to get accepted

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Are We At Peak Master's Degree? Part 1

The declining levels of graduate school enrollment at non-profit US universities begs several questions. One is whether this is systemic problem or does it affect a specific graduate degree level? Since about 75% of all graduate awards each year are Master’s, declining Master’

What is Gradschoolmatch?

We knew intuitively that Gradschoolmatch is a good idea. But what is Gradschoolmatch? By making it easy for people and graduate programs to connect before application deadlines, Gradschoolmatch solves a difficult problem faced by over a million prospective graduate students every year, and also

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US Graduate School Enrollment Has Been Flat Since 2010

This is pretty interesting. It may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine… or it may just be regression to the mean. US graduate school enrollment has been flat since 2010, at just below 3 million heads per year. We haven’t seen

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How To Become A Top-Ranked Graduate Program

We spend a lot of time attempting to understand (and solve) the problems students face in finding a graduate program that fits. Our data indicate the typical successful student researches a dozen or fewer programs and applies to only 3. Let’s couple that

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Program Spotlight: Vanderbilt's Biomedical Graduate Program

One of the nation’s leading biomedical graduate programs, the Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical and Biological Sciences is designed to build successful, well-rounded leaders in science. Under an

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Fordham University Graduate Programs Spotlight

Fordham University is a private research university that’s known for outstanding graduate programs across multiple schools, from business to arts and sciences. With around 6,500 postgraduates spread across

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Graduate School Timeline Infographic

If your program is marketing on campuses, you’re missing most of the people who are thinking about graduate school. Since two-thirds of Gradschoolmatch’s users graduated prior to 2014,

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Program Spotlight: Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University

Gradschoolmatch recently sat down with Shane Hoon, Director of Admissions and Communications for the Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) Master of Arts Program at Georgetown University. The CCT Program at

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What Are The Top Prospective Graduate Students Really Looking For?

Whether they are millennials, or adults returning back to school after years in industry, there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world seeking higher degrees for a variety

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How to Successfully Recruit Students Using Gradschoolmatch

With over 225,000 students using Gradschoolmatch, it can seem overwhelming to navigate through the options and find the best candidates for your graduate program. However, by following these simple

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Your application pipeline works like a funnel

[![see_think_do_apply](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/h_238,w_300/v1527624365/see_think_do_apply-e1421717187413_ocxrue.jpg)](http://www.gradschoolmatch.org/content/images/2015/01/see_think_do_apply-e1421717187413.jpg)Students go through three distinct exploratory phases before applying

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Reimagining The Grad School Fair

As the leaves fall graduate program fair season is in full bloom, when representatives of various graduate schools converge on campuses seeking prospective applicants. Graduate program directors everywhere would do well to read the concerns expressed by Jason Krell on these graduate school fairs.

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