What You Can Do with a Women's Studies Major

Career Opportunities

for Women's Studies Majors

An Annotated Bibliography

2. Applying to Graduate School
The MSU Library's Information and Referral Center (IRC) is the best place on campus to look for information on selecting a graduate school, admissions, application writing, and financing your education. The IRC is located on 1st floor, East. If you don't find everything you're looking for there, you can check in the main stacks around the call number "LB2371."
A few of the newest or most appropriate (to WS) selections available from the IRC...

Asher, Donald. Graduate Admissions Essays: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1991. (LB2366.2 .A84 1991 C.1) On admissions and essay writing.

Borhan, Nooshi (ed). Education for Action: Where to Go for Graduate Studies That Focus on Social Change. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Food First Books, 1991. (LB2371 .F74 1991 C.1) Directory.

Directory of Graduate Programs: Graduate Programs and Admissions Manual. (LB2371 .G72 C.1) Directory.

Greene, Howard. Beyond the Ivy Wall: 10 Essential Steps to Graduate School Admission. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. (LB2371 .G74 1989 C.1) On admissions and finance.

Livesey, Herbert B. Guide to American Graduate Schools. New York, Viking Press [serial]. (L901 .L5 C.7) Directory.

McWade, Patricia. Financing Graduate School: How to Get the Money for Your Master's or Ph.D. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, 1996. (LB2337.4 .M34 1996 C.1) On finance.

Peterson's Annual Guides to Graduate Study. 1990-. (LB2371 .A52 C.1) Directory.

Stelzer, Richard J. How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1993. (LB2351.52.U6 S74 1993 C.1) On admissions and essay writing.

Stewart, Mark A. Perfect Personal Statements. New York: Macmillan, 1996. (LB2351.52 .U6 S746 1996) On admissions and essay writing.

A few of the best resources shelved in the main stacks...

Rittner, Barbara. A Women's Guide to Surviving Graduate School. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. (LB2371.4 .R58 1997 C.1

Walters, Charles. How to Apply to Graduate School Without Really Lying. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980. (LB2371 .W29 C.1) On admissions.

Williams, Stephen J. How to Get Into and Finance Graduate and Professional Schools: A Step-By-Step Guide for Current and Returning Students. New York: Collier Books, 1982. (LB2371 .W47 1982 C.1) On admissions and finance.

Why Get a
WS Degree?

Applying to
Grad School

Finding
a Job

Other WS
programs