This assignment will make you better appreciate the strategy behind salary negotiations by looking at salary from the perspective of it as the employer's price for your services.

Conduct: Research on starting salaries for your potential career paths -- both pre and post graduate degree.

Compare: Costs at your final choices for graduate school. Be sure to also look into scholarships, assistantships, and other aid that may help offset total costs.

Review:: Salary and Job Offer Negotiation Tutorial.

Take a test: Salary Negotiation, Compensation, and Job Offer Quiz.

React: To your score. How will you improve the results when it counts?