Graduate School Question

newmassdad
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:01:44 +0000

Northstarmom,

I do not know of any GRAD program (i.e. a PhD/research program) that has prereqs. A professional degree program masquerading as a PhD program, such as a clinical psych degree, will, of course, have them. If you know of exceptions, I’d love to know the specifics - department and school.

As others have said, few PhD programs care what you majored in. They care deeply that you can do the work, but that can be demonstrated in a wide variety of ways, even by work experience sometimes.

In fact, departments are often richer by having students with widely differing backgrounds. This is especially true as the traditional academic divisions have blurred - social scientists using tools from biology, chemists using quantum mechanics, biologists using advanced computation techniques, english majors using complex linguistic analysis algorithms and such.