For the past four years, the Career Center has hosted a Graduate School Expo for juniors and seniors who are interested in or even thinking of going to graduate school after they graduate from Ball State.
"The graduate expo used to be a part of the career fair," James Mitchell, senior assistant director at the Career Center, said. "But we decided to make it separate because it seemed that more underclassmen were coming to the career fair than upperclassmen, and because the lower classmen are just starting out at Ball State, they are not that interested in graduate school just yet."
The Graduate School Expo will be held Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Art and Journalism Building, on the first floor.
In total, there are 30 different graduate schools that come to the expo. The schools' specialties are various. The Career Center brings in schools that specialize in medicine, law, journalism, business and more.
Most of the exhibitors at the expo specialize in programs that Ball State doesn't even offer. During the expo, there will be a workshop that will help students understand the newest version of the Graduate Record Examination, a test that each potential student has to take to get into graduate school.
Prizes will also be given away at the expo. A student will have the chance to win a Kaplan test program, which is a preparation program that can get a student ready for taking the GRE.
Mitchell said he hopes that this expo will be helpful for students and that they will leave with more questions than answers, that way the idea of going to graduate school will really stick in a student's mind.
"Anyone who is thinking about or wanting to go to grad school should come to this," he said. "It allows students to have an easy way to network with other schools that actually want to talk to them and help guide the student to a better future."
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