Some general questions about graduate school.

mandy2010
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:03:20 +0000

I’m an undergraduate student and my major is not what I’m interested in: Finance
I want to do a master degree on political science.
I checked Fordham website, it said they wanted student who majored in political science.
I couldn’t find out much from NYU and Columbia. I heard people said that undergraduate’s major doesn’t matter that much when applying to graduate school, now, I just don’t know how true it is.

Another question is, based on the research that I did, I found that M.A usually doesn’t offer much financial aid or scholarship, right? I heard that only a phD would receive decent grant, or basically, they are paid for that degree. But most of the time, people who want to pursue a M.A degree would not get much financial aid, right? Before I did the research, I thought I could get some sort of financial like what what I did for my undergradute. Can anyone tell me more about it?

Thank you in advance!