How To Find The Right Degree Program For Your Cool Career
How do I find the right degree program for my cool career?
Here are a couple of my favourite little tricks to find the right degree programme for your 'cool career'. I encourage you to avoid some of the most prestigious schools because the more prestigious, the more likely they are to be research oriented. As a result, you're going to be learning a lot of theory. I've got to admit it to you; my daughter went to Yale Law School. Yale is about as prestigious as it gets in law schools, and yet when she graduated, she (like almost all the rest of the Yale law students) had no idea how to be a lawyer. She told me a great story once about this professor of law at Yale who was awakened in the middle of the night by a call from a friend of his who had gotten arrested for a DUI. The friend says to this professor, "You've got to get me out of jail, this is freaking me out and I don't want to be in jail. You've got to get me out of here!" Guess what the law professor said? "I don't know how to get you out of jail!" Now, the people who are professors generally are long on theory. So, the more prestigious the University, the more theoretical the programme will be. If you're really interested in being trained well, I encourage you to find a school that is expert in the practical; in teaching the practice of the field. How do you find them? You avoid the prestigious names, and then you sit in on an advanced class in that programme. Let's say it is an Urban Planning program. You sit in on the very advanced, the last class. That gives you access to the students who have just finished the programme, and you ask them, "How good is this programme?" That is a great, great solution.
