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From getting into graduate schools to landing their dream jobs, our students and alumni study and work hard to accomplish their academic and career goals. Be inspired by their successes to achieve your own career change or advancement.
How I Studied in Berkeley During the COVID-19 Quarantine
Halfway into my spring semester, chaos ensued and the Bay Area went into a shelter-in-place order. Words like ‘social distancing’...
Fashion-Forward to Copywriter
Specialized Program in Professional Writing graduate Helen Schultheis has a “great love for storytelling, and a knack for educating...
Designing the Perfect Job
Like many starting college, Ankita chose a major where the expectations were known: Her father was a businessman, so she studied...
Nonfiction Writer Discovers His Creativity
When Thomas Farley enrolled in Creative Nonfiction Workshop, he didn’t know what he was getting himself into. Already a published...
Is an M.F.A. in Writing for You?
You'd think writers would excel at filling out graduate school applications and submitting personal essays, right? Even if your writing...
Human Resource Management Graduate Update: Joan Gibson
After working in the nonprofit art sector for several years and discovering a penchant for human resources (HR), Gibson was hired as an...
Adding a Specialty
Sometimes a degree isn't enough. For Samantha Edwards, the Certificate Program in Landscape Architecture is the perfect complement to...
Putting the PMP® to Work in Civil Engineering
Certificate Program in Project Management graduate Mark Summers is through and through a civil engineer. The field is analytical and...
The Course of a Counseling Career
Do you visualize your own career opportunities as a beautiful landscape, complete with green meadows and valleys, winding streams and...