Graduate Studies
Higher education” in the United States means education beyond the secondary school level, or beyond the 12 years normally required to complete elementary and secondary studies. Higher education is offered by colleges, universities, professional schools, teachers’ colleges, community and junior colleges, vocational and technical schools, academies of art and music. Detailed information concerning higher education in the United States may be found at the Advising Center which has a library of programs of most of the colleges and universities in the United States, and reference books evaluating various specializations offered by these institutions.
While the information below should be useful as a point of departure for anyone interested in higher education in the United States, it should be noted that the Commission for Educational Exchange is not qualified to counsel students in the choice of a career, or to judge their aptitude for any particular university specialization. Students who wish to continue their education in the United States should note the following facts:
• Booklet: Guide to Graduate Level Studies in the United States (.pdf)
• U.S. Higher Education System
• Specialized fields: MBA | Law | Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Resources
Watch videos of Belgians who went to the United States for their postdoctoral research:
- Koen Putman, Postdoc Rehabilitation Sciences, National Rehabilitation Hospital – Washington, DC
- Bruno Forment, Postdoc research Music History, University of Southern California
- Martinus Buekers, Postdoc research, kinesiology, Louisiana State University
- Delpine Hesters, PhD research Sociology, Havard University
- Sophie Vanwambeke, research on disease ecology/medical geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Steven Maere, Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
- Jean-Marc Taymans, Scientific Research Exchange, Neurosciences, National Institutes of Health
- Sam Desmet, PhD in Music Performance, Florida State University
- Maarten Van Ginderachter, Postdoctoral Research, History, Harvard University
- Kevin Verstrepen, PostDoc and Professorship at Harvard and MIT
- Prof. Stef Craps, Visiting Scholarship at Columbia University | Stef Craps, Visiting Scholarship at Columbia University
- Frederic Silvestre, Post-doc in Biology-Aquatic Exotoxicology at UC Davis
- Joris Vankerschaver, Postdoc in Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Other resources:
Online Graduate Programs: http://www.onlinegraduateprograms/
Sam Castañeda
Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Program
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Berkeley
e-mail: samc@berkeley.edu
url: https://vspa.berkeley.edu
National Postdoctoral Association
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/
Individual Development Plan
Federation of American Societies in Experimental Biology (FASEB)
http://opa.faseb.org/pdf/idp.pdf
Put Your Science to Work – Peter Fiske
available with Amazon.Com Books
Stanford University Counseling Center
http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/jobsearch/research/
