International PhD Career Readiness Series (June. 2024)
The International PhD Career Readiness Series is intentionally designed to focus on providing strategies of career preparation for international PhD candidates and Postdocs in the United States, including best practices on navigating PhD career landscape and U.S. workplace culture, job search process, and how to prepare for the immigration portfolio.
2024 Doctoral Career Pathways Conference

How to Generate a Degree Audit Using u.achieve
Need a refresher on how to generate a degree audit using the u.achieve tool?
We offer these resources that can help:
- Short videos on how to enter a course exception and non-course exception and
Archived Deadlines
A2i Consulting BootCamp (Mar. 2024)
This immersive bootcamp-style program will help graduate students and postdocs gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to land a job not only in consulting but also within “industry” more broadly.
Dean Roth and Provost Rice on our Open Forums
Dear Graduate Students, As we approach the end of the semester, we want to congratulate you on all of your hard work and accomplishments this fall. We'd also like to thank those of you who participated in our graduate student open forums over the past month. The insight and feedback we received is invaluable as we continue our work to improve the graduate student experience at UMD. Our work ahead
Summer Health Insurance
Information about Summer Coverage
Graduate Assistants who have a State of Maryland Employee Health Plan:
- If the assistantship continues from one academic year to the next, (Spring 26 to Fall 26), the State of Maryland Employee Health Plan coverage will continue uninterrupted through the summer.
- If the assistantship ends in Spring 2026 and you are not reappointed in Fall 2026 with an assistantship, then your insurance plan will terminate on the last day of the month that your assistantship ended (if the last day of a GAship is J
New Year, New Knowledge: Pathways to Progress