The PHDs.org Engineering Science Blog is a blog especially intended for Engineering Science graduate and college students and practitioners. It is laden with news, tips, and feature articles that such an audience would find helpful and interesting.
What to look forward to when visiting PHDS
The site’s news and feature articles tackle various issues in the field of graduate studies and Engineering Science such as topics about risk aversion at the National Institute of Health (NIH). Interestingly, while it is an Engineering Science blog, there are also a number of articles for graduate school students and aspiring graduate school students in general.
There is a considerable number of articles about looking for and choosing graduate schools. One of the blog?s most interesting features that sets it apart from other blogs and websites offering the same kind of information and content is its unique mechanism for searching graduate schools based on your priorities. This mechanism helps you find the right graduate school for you. There are drop down boxes from which you could choose the type of graduate program that you?re looking for and the field or area of discipline that you wish to study. After that, you just have to click “search” and the schools offering courses in relation to your search would be listed in front of you. Should you wish to make a more customized search, you can use the third drop down box and the search results of the universities you?re looking for would be arranged according to which school offers the best program in the field of study that you chose. Fun and easy.
Areas for improvement
Besides that, the site also provides links to other websites that would be helpful to science graduate students and practitioners. The use of more pictures and videos would further improve not just the blog?s look but also the information and content that it can provide its visitors.
The Eduplan Blog is a collection of articles on tips, advice, and other important information on graduate schools, graduate school admissions, MBAs, careers, and job hunting. It targets graduate students, those planning to take graduate studies, job hunters, working people, and others concerned with careers, graduate schools, graduate studies, and job hunting.
What Eduplan offers
Simple as it is and with well-written and comprehensive articles on topics that its audience would commonly be interested in, the blog is a good find and a helpful friend. It has helpful articles on topics such as choosing a graduate school, how to look for online classes, school admissions, resume writing, handling interviews, and career development, among others. Navigation is easy because aside from links to the latest articles on the side bar and on the array of blog entries, there are also permanent sections containing links to most commonly searched topics: college admissions, MBA admissions, graduate school admissions, career coaching, resume writing, effective job search, and scholarships, as well as immigration, job hunting, and schooling in the United States.
One article that particularly took my interest was the one which tells the reader how to use Twitter for job search. Such an article is one good proof of how the blog keeps up with technology in terms of article content. It is good that the blog makes use of pictures to prevent it from looking dull and boring.
What Eduplan lacks
The blog, however, would do well with making excerpts from the links appear on the array of latest blog entries on the main blog page. The blog entries, which are lengthy by the way, appear complete on the blog array. There is no actual need to present the entire article on the main blog page when you can simply provide links to the entries. Simply providing an array of the latest titles along with excerpts or teasers will do.
