ODU Premier Graduate Admissions fosters relationships with other institutions to recruit prospective graduate students to ODU programs. Our goal is to attract premier undergraduates from other institutions into graduate pathways that guarantee admission, shorten the time to degree completion, and provide students with an exceptional ODU experience.
Where Do I Start?
Here’s how to build robust graduate pathways for high-performing students nearing the end of their undergraduate experience at institutions outside of ODU. The Graduate School can support your efforts and suggests the following measures to initiate and sustain fruitful articulation relationships.
- Identify external undergraduate programs with few options for premier students to continue their graduate education.
- Consider your relationships with other faculty or other programs whom you trust to produce capable undergraduates.
- Collaborate with the Graduate School for a data-driven approach to identifying areas where undergraduates may be underserved as they seek graduate education.
- Consider how in-person or online programs will enable opportunities for partnership with a wide variety of institutions.
- Contact the Graduate School to discuss your plans and seek assistance.
- Identify leadership at other institutions who can discuss undergraduate to graduate pathways that offer their students new options.
- The Graduate School can provide email templates for first contact and advice on facilitating first interactions.
- Discuss the benefits of your program and the professional, research, and scholastic opportunities it offers.
- Review the ODU Articulation Template and MOU Example.
- Consider which options may be appropriate for your program, the undergraduate partner, and the prospective students.
- Develop your own Memorandum of Understanding to outline the admission requirements, guidelines and procedures, and marketing and advertising strategies used by both institutions.
- Consult with the Graduate School about how to diminish barriers to participation and facilitate best practices.
- Finalize the agreement with the Dean of your college.
- Partner with Graduate School and the Communications Office to build initial marketing assets—website, flyers and brochures, promotional information for students—that outline the opportunity and encourage initial engagement.
- Maintain communication with the person of contact at the partner institution.
- Consider a visit to the institution to advertise the program and maintain key relationships.
- Contact Advisors at the Graduate School to move interested students into the program through regular communication and admission/registration.
- Partner with Graduate Admissions to build a simple admissions form to collect basic new student information.
- Make any necessary changes to the Graduate Catalog to add the program(s).
- Provide a one-page Annual Report to the Graduate School to outline progress and seek additional consultation.
Review the ODU Articulation Template and MOU Example
Contact
Please contact the Graduate School to get started!