professional schools
Vocational training institutions
Professional schools are graduate institutions that train students for specific licensed occupations—law, medicine, business, dentistry, nursing, and similar fields.
Unlike academic graduate programs focused on research, professional schools emphasize practical preparation: She's applying to professional schools after finishing her undergraduate degree.
The term distinguishes these career-oriented programs from traditional PhD tracks.
- bar examLicensure test for attorneys
- white coat ceremonyMedical school rite of passage
- board certificationFormal professional competency verification
- music conservatoryInstitution for advanced musical training
- graduate programAdvanced academic training after college
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, thesis statement
- women's educationSmith College, Vassar, Radcliffe, Spelman, Seven Sisters
- Quebec EducationMcGill University, ETS, language laws, English instruction, kindergarten
professional schoolsliberal arts colleges
Schools prioritizing broad intellectual cultivation
liberal arts education · general education · research universities · arts and sciences · classical education
professional schoolsself-directed learning
Education you control yourself
autodidacticism · informal education · community colleges · on-the-job training · vocational training
professional schoolsapprenticeships
Supervised vocational training periods
on-the-job training · self-directed learning · informal education · trade guilds
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