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Plan for graduate or professional school

Will your career path require graduate or professional school?

Career and Professional Development provides advising and resources for Virginia Tech students considering graduate or professional school as a step in your journey toward your career goals. Starting with your first year in college, as you explore career options, you may know or discover career paths that require graduate or professional school in your future.

Ask yourself important questions to decide whether and when to go.

Should you go?
Lobby of Smith Career Center where students arrived for Career Outfitters

Pre-professional advising for health professions, law, education.

Pre-professional advising

Grad and professional school fair hosted at Virginia Tech.

Grad and professional school fair

Grad / professional school as first destination after bachelor's degree.

Where Virginia Tech grads went

Sources to find schools, programs, and admission exam prep.

Find schools | test prep

Learn about writing personal statements that are often required.

Personal statements