Attending graduate school is not always necessary, but it is a favorable choice. Wanting to attend graduate school to improve one’s career, increase their options, professional prospects and further satisfy their intellectual curiosity. Going to graduate school and obtaining a graduate degree can improve a one’s ability to do their best work. There are also more opportunities for advancement in one’s career with a graduate degree. Attending graduate school is also essential because it can help increase the amount of flexibility in the work that an individual can perform, as well as other fields. Graduate school is also an exceptional place to network with professionals from many fields. Graduate school can help to satisfy intellectual curiosity and provide opportunities to fully engage oneself in their subject of interest.…show more content… Attending historically black colleges to obtain all degrees, from bachelor’s to a doctorate, has always been a priority. Having prior knowledge as to how things flow at Langston University just made the decision for graduate school that much easier. Langston University has outstanding academic programs and the student is looking forward to facing these academic challenges head-on.
Urban Education was chosen as the student’s major because she has always aspired to work with urban along with potentially troubled youth. Becoming a teacher together with having a hand in molding and nourishing young minds before they are sent into the “real world” to be great is a powerful and rewarding career to have. Teachers are looked to as, not just educators, but mentors, role models, counselors, and confidantes by their students. The student feels that she possesses the proper characteristics and abilities to be all of these things for our