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No matter what your career plans are, your graduate school experience must encompass more than just coursework, research, presentations, and publications. The Graduate School provides programs, resources, and events to help you with every step along the way—from identifying potential career paths, to developing skills to compete for them, to managing your career. These opportunities will help prepare you for success in academia, business, entrepreneurship, government, and nonprofits. Professional development is not one workshop or one course; it is something you do throughout your time at Duke.
Participants
- Master's Students
- Doctoral Students
- Professional Students
- Postdoc
Skills Emphasized
- Lab management
- Communication and presentation
- Writing
- Professional networking
- Research development
- Project management and budget management
- Job search
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Science policy
- Technology commercialization
- Entrepreneurship
- Teaching
- Research ethics
- Career exploration
- Interdisciplinary teamwork
- Self-awareness
- Professional adaptability
Services Offered
- Career Counseling
- Courses
- Seminars
- Workshops
- Versatile PhD
External Partners
- Private companies/industry
- Non-profit organizations
- Federal agencies
- Recruiting companies
- Other universities and/or colleges
- Alumni
- Entrepreneurs/Self-employed
University Collaborations
- Career services/career center
- Writing program or writing center
- Office of graduate fellowships & awards
- Teaching and learning center
- University libraries
- Center for Faculty Development
- Development and Alumni Relations
- International Student and Scholar Services
- English Language Support
CGS is the leading source of information, data analysis, and trends in graduate education. Our benchmarking data help member institutions to assess performance in key areas, make informed decisions, and develop plans that are suited to their goals.
CGS Best Practice initiatives address common challenges in graduate education by supporting institutional innovations and sharing effective practices with the graduate community. Our programs have provided millions of dollars of support for improvement and innovation projects at member institutions.
As the national voice for graduate education, CGS serves as a resource on issues regarding graduate education, research, and scholarship. CGS collaborates with other national stakeholders to advance the graduate education community in the policy and advocacy arenas.
CGS is an authority on global trends in graduate education and a leader in the international graduate community. Our resources and meetings on global issues help members internationalize their campuses, develop sustainable collaborations, and prepare their students for a global future.
