 Best Practices Planning websites for recruiting and use by current students.

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 Best Practices Planning websites for recruiting and use by current students

Key parts of a grad website  Fit to the needs of the discipline  What prospective and current students need to know  Ordering of information highlights most central needs  Then accessibility and logic become important  How easily can prospective students find their answers?  What answers do current students need?

Some important components  Clearly identified areas of strength  Why a student would apply to your program  Then to specific parts…  Transparency…key stats  Placements  Applications/admissions  Time to degree (median)  Attrition…how defined?

More key components…  Graduate studies handbook  Up-to-date  Previous versions for continuing students  Community information  Application process  Different places for other universities  Grad School, admissions, departments

More components…  Graduate student profiles  Interest areas, address, photos  Program timeline  Courses & requirements  basic sketch aside from handbook  Faculty research areas  Funding opportunities & funding policy (years, MA vs PhD)

Website examples  English:  Philosophy:  Physics:  Economics:  Geography: m.shtml m.shtml

More website examples  Political Science:  Sociology:  Biochemistry:

Discussion  What works in these sites?  Other sites to see?  What do you wish you could do to your site?  What do you feel is the strength of your site?  Possible areas for improvement?