Confident
Confident
Gain confidence
You’ll leave Wooster with the skills employers and graduate schools want: initiative, independent judgment, creative problem solving, and the ability to write and speak clearly and persuasively. Confident? You should be.
Helping you develop those skills is the goal of Wooster’s curriculum, every faculty member who teaches it, and the staff who support it. You’ll find opportunities for study and internship experiences away from campus, domestic as well as international, that complement your academic work in your chosen discipline.
Research with a faculty member may lead to opportunities to present or publish your findings. (One geology professor has published articles with more than 40 student co-authors.) If you wish to compete for prestigious awards for postgraduate study, such as Fulbright, Truman, and Marshall scholarships, you’ll be well prepared to do so. In the past five years, Wooster graduates have won nine Fulbrights, four NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, three NSF Fellowships, and two National Physical Science Consortium Fellowships.
Having completed a senior Independent Study project, you can show prospective employers tangible proof of your ability to conduct research, analyze complicated information, think for yourself, communicate in compelling ways, and see a project through to success. That’s more than most graduating seniors can put on their resumes.
As the president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities told a recent graduating class, “Employers want employees who can write…who possess analytical skills, creativity, and a multidisciplinary perspective.” Most of all, they want people with the capacity for continuous innovation, which she compared to “an everyday exercise in I.S.”