Social science graduate programs in Europe and North America: Strategies for Getting in and Soft Skills for Getting Through

This project is designed to introduce students to the system of English-language graduate-level education, and to equip them with knowledge and skills they will need to successfully navigate it. Students will learn how European and North American social science programs are structured and funded, how professional hierarchies work in academia, what career options are available both in academia and the industry to those with advanced degrees, and what a successful professional trajectory for an early-career scholar looks like in 2020. In the applied component of the project, students will hone a variety of essential skills that they will need to pick the right graduate program, develop and execute a strategy for getting in, and surviving the challenges of advanced-degree education in an unfamiliar organizational and cultural context.