Graduate School Links:

Related Sites

http://depts.washington.edu/engl/advising/gradschool/gradwhy.html

This is the official advice given by the University of Washington's English Program.  It offers an excellent step-by-step guide through the process of deciding whether graduate school is right for you, how to apply, etc.

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/undergrad/aftermajor/gradrankings.asp

Here is a list, provided by U-California at Santa Barbara, of rankings of graduate schools in English, with a second list of subspecialties and their rankings.    This list  contains active links to various graduate school programs of interest for current English undergraduate students.  Such lists are subjective!

http://www.marquette.edu/aegs/advice/ 

This is a page of advice written by graduate students for graduate students.  Has lots of advice on the process of applying to graduate school and on what to do once you get there.

Although the following link is to a commercial site (i.e., they want you to pay them as consultants), they have some good dos and don'ts for the process, etc.: http://www.accepted.com/grad/

Here's the ABOUT (tm) site "Graduate Study in English"--a commercial search engine site with fairly good links: http://gradschool.about.com/cs/english1/

Interested in the MAT?
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/matprogs.htm  This site offers a plug for getting a Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) instead of a traditional MA/ PhD in English literature, written by William C. Dowling, professor of English at Rutgers University.