A good graduate education will advance your life. It will also enable you to get a promotion, make a better living, move to the next level…achieve something you couldn’t otherwise do.
Just six percent of people in the United States earn a master’s degree; even fewer—2.5 percent—earn a Ph.D. or professional degree. Those who earn advanced degrees become part of a select group with increased opportunities for career advancement, personal enrichment, professional achievement, community leadership, and financial rewards. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, mean income increased as follows in 2005*:
Individual Household Lower Upper High School Graduate $29,448 $56,810 Bachelor’s Degree $54,689 $104,514 Master’s Degree $67,898 $121,484 *Individual figures are for workers over 18; household figures are for householders
aged 25 and above.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Chrysler Corporation Dunn & Bradstreet Family Services of Wyoming Valley Federal Judicial Center, U.S.Government Food Network General Dynamics Harper Collins John Heinz Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine Honeywell Lord & Taylor Lourdes Hospital MD Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas Mellon Bank Merck & Co., Inc. |
Merrill Lynch Northeast Counseling Pennsylvania Department of Corrections The Philadelphia Orchestra Procter & Gamble Prudential Financial Sanofi Pasteur Scranton Counseling Center Texaco Corp. Time Health U.S. Army U.S. Department of the Navy Department of Defense U.S. Probation Service Walt Disney World |
Plus…
school districts throughout the nation employ our graduates as school psychologists, speech language pathologists, reading specialists, and educators.
Admissions & Department Events |
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| New Student Orientation | 8/19/2008 |
| Physician Assistant Open House | 7/18/2008 |
| Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program at Penn State | 7/19/2008 |
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