Does Graduate School and Work Mix?
There is no one answer to this question. Why? There are many ways to attend graduate school – and many graduate programs with differing cultures and rules. Take the graduate program that I attended: Working was frowned upon and sometimes forbidden. It was a full time doctoral program and students were expected to treat their graduate studies as a full time job. Students who held outside jobs were few and far between — and they rarely spoke of them, at least not to faculty. Students who were funded by faculty grants or institutional funds were not permitted to work outside of the institution. However, not all graduate programs look at student employment in the same way. Full Time Graduate Programs Students who attend full time graduate programs, especially doctoral programs, generally are expected to treat their studies as a full time job. Some programs expressly forbid students from working while others simp
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