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Returning Graduate Students
For more information on how to submit an application to resume your graduate academic study, change your major and/or degree, or add a certificate program, please visit this site: Resume Study, Change of Major/Degree, and/or Add a Certificate.
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If you have completed all course requirements and are only resuming in order to submit your intent to graduate it is not necessary to complete an application to resume study. Please contact your plan of study to have your record activated in order to submit your intent to graduate.
“Penn State has incredible opportunities built into its graduate infrastructure that allow graduate students to receive top of the line training for a variety of career paths. A few of the many opportunities that are available for (but not limited to) physiology students are NIH T32 training fellowships, a graduate teaching certificate, grant workshops to help students write more competitive grants, and certificates in more specialized areas of research, like clinical and translational sciences. At every step of my graduate education, I was encouraged to explore the variety of career paths that you can pursue after your PhD, and the means to make myself a competitive candidate for these different paths.”
— Allison Carothers
Doctoral candidate in Integrative and Biomedical Physiology, Huck Institute of Life Sciences