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How to Select An Advisor
 

Choosing the person you will be working with and associated with for your career is a very important decision with long-lasting ramifications.

There are a number of important points to consider when you begin to consider selecting your advisor, whether at the beginning of your graduate work or part way through it.

Here are some articles and web sites with points you might want to think about:*

Choosing a Thesis Lab
Skip Brass, ScienceCareers.org, AAAS
Oct. 2003

Choosing a Graduate Advisor
Indiana University Computer Science Department

Choosing a Graduate or Postdoc Advisor
John Andraos, ScienceCareer.org, AAAS
Aug. 2002

Graduate School Survival Guide
Stanford University School of Medicine

How to Choose an Advisor
Howard G. Adams and Ashwin Ram (College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)

An Insider’s Guide to Choosing a Graduate Advisor and Research Projects in Laboratory Sciences
Marshall Lev Dermer (University of Oklahoma)

Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: Ph.D. Resources
University of Washington

Questions to Consider in Selecting a Dissertation Advisor
Kit Ayars (University of Pittsburgh)

See also:
Mentoring: How to select a Mentor

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