Academic Coaching for Graduate Students
Why Do Graduate Students Need Coaches?
Graduate schools are filled with smart, hardworking students who’ve delayed entering careers to earn an advanced degree. It’s easy to think that, because they’ve already earned an undergraduate degree, they’ve got it all together and don’t need additional support. Nothing could be further from the truth. Graduate school isn’t like anything that has come before, and many students don’t get the support they need to succeed. That’s where academic coaching for graduate students comes in.
Advisors are the strongest predictor of academic success in graduate school, but one in three graduate students is not satisfied with their academic or research advisors.
Although it varies by field and degree, the best estimate suggests that nearly 50% of graduate students don’t finish their degree. Plus, one in four takes longer than they planned to graduate. That is a lot of time, energy, and money lost!
An academic success coach for graduate students can provide the support needed to get through their degrees with their sanity intact. So, if you are a graduate student struggling with inadequate, difficult, or problematic advisement, read on!
Academic Coaching for Grad Students
Academic coaching for graduate students isn’t like coaching for undergraduates. If you’ve been accepted into graduate school, we already know that you’re a bright student (even if you don’t feel it sometimes).
Coaching for academic success in graduate school means helping you with challenges you probably never anticipated when you filled out your admissions applications.
You might be balancing more responsibilities than ever, taking harder classes, planning a research study, being given impossibly long reading lists, or writing a thesis or dissertation, all of which can leave you feeling overwhelmed. You knew earning a graduate degree wasn’t going to be easy, but we bet you’re wondering if it really has to be this hard. Trust us, we know, we’ve been there.
The Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis
The answer is no, it does not have to be that hard. If you’re feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, lost, or thinking about dropping out, academic coaching might be for you.
Let’s be clear. If you’re feeling this way, it’s not just you. You are not alone. About 70% of graduate students feel burned out, and 45% of graduate students report being so stressed out that it interferes with their work. That means that nearly half of all grad students are so stressed that their own stress is making life more stressful. It’s enough to make anyone scream!
Getting Help in Grad School
The good news is, you don’t have to go through this alone. One in five graduate students reports feeling isolated, and it’s our mission to stop that. Academic coaches are mentors, problem solvers, cheerleaders, and accountability buddies all in one.
We specialize in helping you identify where graduate school is going wrong for you. Then, we work with you to find a better approach to those challenges so that you can get through graduate school faster, with less stress, and earn your degree.
We’ve been coaching master’s and doctoral students, like you, for over a decade. We know the kinds of problems graduate students encounter. We’ve helped students:
- Study more efficiently
- Improve their academic writing
- Organize and plan their projects
- Increase their productivity
- Communicate better with their advisor
- Manage their time more effectively
- Plan their theses and dissertations
- Improve their presentation skills
- Overcome procrastination
- Transition to a different advisor (when necessary)
- Reduce stress
- and more.
Don’t go it alone. Schedule a free consultation with us to learn how we can help you meet the challenges of graduate school. It’s easy, just click the button below to speak with one of us about where you’re struggling. There’s no hard sell. We’re not here to pressure you, just have a conversation about what you’re going through and how we can help. Sometimes just the consultation is enough to sort the problem!
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Our Academic Success Coaching for Graduate School
We are a pair of coaches dedicated to helping students through all stages of their graduate school journey, from application through graduation and into their first post-graduate position. We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee, so we only take students we know we can help. That’s why we offer free consultations with no obligation and no hard sell. During the consultation, we ask you questions about your goals, what you’re struggling with, and what you’ve already tried. If it’s a straightforward enough challenge, we may be able to help you solve it during the consultation. Happy days! If it’s not that straightforward, then we will discuss more about how we can help or give you a referral if it’s not a good fit. Regardless of how the call goes, it’s our job to make sure you know that you are not alone and to help you find the support you need, even if it’s not us.
The challenges that come with earning a master’s degree versus a doctoral degree have some overlap, but they also differ. If you’d like to learn more about how we can help you earn your specific degree, check out our pages on master’s degree coaching or doctoral/professional degree coaching.
Academic Coaching Rates
We know most graduate students aren’t independently wealthy, so we do our best to keep our rates affordable. We also believe in transparency, so that you know exactly what you’re getting. All coaching packages come with in-between session text and email support. Schedule a free consultation for more details.
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