The Graduate Experience

Graduate study allows you to advance your education under the direction of discipline specialists. You should carefully select a field of study which provides you with the opportunity to acquire the understandings, skills, and values needed for advancement in your chosen field and for continuing self-education.

Graduate programs are designed

• to extend your academic, professional, and personal competence;
• to familiarize you with the research in your field of study; and
• to enable you to apply relevant research to contemporary issues in your specialty.

The master’s degree confers upon its recipients recognition as leaders within the fields of study. Therefore, as a graduate student, you are expected to reflect not only superior academic achievement, but also the commitment, values, and leadership skills necessary for you to assume a leadership role in your specialty area.

A significant amount of the information presented in the Graduate Study section of the FSU web site is presented in Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format. To view PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader.