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Podcast: Your Future, Your Way

Is graduate-level education right for you? Listen and find out.

Get the inside scoop from adult students who took the leap to get a professional degree or certificate. Also hear from the people behind our graduate programs — the people who will support you in the pursuit of your academic and professional goals.

We will address the most pressing issues, such as: How will a graduate degree or certificate help advance my career? What are options for financing my education? How will I balance work, school and life?

Learn how to shape your future, your way.

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Episode 20: Application Assistance – Considerations for International Students

If you’re an international applicant, check out our episode about what to keep in mind when applying to a graduate program. You’ll learn details about admissions requirements specific to international applicants.

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Episode 19: Application Assistance – Statement of Purpose

Listen to our application assistance episode with our recruitment staff sharing strategies for writing your statement of purpose when applying to graduate school.

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Episode 18: Application Assistance – Letters of Recommendation

Check out our graduate program application assistance episode where recruitment staff share strategies for requesting letters of recommendation.

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Episode 17: Application Assistance – Preparing Materials

Curious about commonly required application materials for graduate programs? Listen to our recruitment staff talk about preparing high-quality materials so you feel confident submitting your application to UW–Madison.

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Episode 16: How to develop in your data career

Learn about UW–Madison’s highly-ranked graduate programs in data science and analytics and how these programs empower students with in-demand skills.

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Episode 15: Explore career-boosting online engineering graduate programs (Part 2)

Rejoin the conversation with Heather Smith, director of the online Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, and Steve North, chief engineer and associate director at Collins Aerospace, to hear how you can prepare yourself for a conversation with your manager about investing in your education and career growth.

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Episode 14: Explore career-boosting online engineering graduate programs (Part 1)

Learn about UW–Madison’s top-ranked engineering graduate programs and how the fully online master’s degrees provide technical training to meet industry demand and help students with career growth. Hear from Heather Smith, director of the online Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, and Steve North, a program alumnus and chief engineer and associate director from Collins Aerospace.

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Episode 13: Explore Professional Programs in Health and Medicine

Learn from experts and an alum about UW–Madison’s Clinical Nutrition professional programs, as well as the demand for workers in clinical nutrition and other healthcare fields.

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Episode 12: Explore Professional Programs in the High-Demand Field of Education

Learn from a faculty member and a student about UW–Madison’s professional programs in the School of Education, as well as the demand for workers in the education field.

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Episode 11: Financing Your Education II (FAFSA & Financial Aid)

Learn about the FAFSA – the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – and other financial aid opportunities available to graduate students at UW-Madison.

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Episode 10: Life Hacks for Accelerated, In-Person Programs

Join a Design + Innovation MS student and the academic director to learn how to maintain a healthy work-life balance while enrolled in an accelerated, face-to-face professional program that doesn’t require a thesis.

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Episode 09: Balancing Work, Family & School (Flexibility of Online Learning)

Learn about the benefits of online graduate programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from staff and alumni of the 100% online MS in Educational Psychology: Professional Educators program.

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