Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the August 19, 2002 issue of
QuintZine.
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Law school and graduate applications are soaring, reported
Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press recently. Law school
applications are seeing the biggest increase in at least two
decades -- as more young people are deciding the job market out
there is just too rough, Dale noted. Business schools and other
graduate programs also reporting a surge in applications. "Some
of those applying are going straight from college to graduate school,"
Dale wrote. "Others have been working but have decided to go back
to school." Law school applications are up 17.9 percent for 2002-03,
the biggest spike in more than 20 years, according to the Law School
Admission Council.
Get Educated's Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools (BLDGS)
is an annual series of free downloadable PDF guidebooks
that profile accredited distance-learning graduate schools
headquartered in the USA (Go here
