This assignment now moves you away from internal processes and controllable factors to your external environment and issues you cannot control -- and how these forces can affect your future career.

Follow: The steps of the market research process and develop a detailed short-term (one month) plan to identify and research key graduate programs -- in order to get a step closer to choosing your ideal graduate program.

Conduct: research on at least five graduate programs. Use our Graduate School Resources.

Read and react: Criteria for Choosing a Graduate Program.

Brainstorm: A list of other resources (people, books, journals, Websites, etc.) that you can use in your research plan to get information on particular graduate schools.