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Information Session: Graduate Student-at-Large Programs

Are you thinking about graduate or business school? Consider the Graduate Student-at-Large program. Join us on August 3 to learn how you can enroll in graduate courses at UChicago.

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About the Past Event

Are you thinking about graduate or business school? Consider the Graduate Student-at-Large (GSAL) program. Please stop by for a quick chat with the program director, Esther Pandian-Risk, as she introduces you to the GSAL program and how you can enroll in for-credit graduate courses across the University of Chicago. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding the program or the application process.

About the GSAL program

Students accepted to the Graduate Student-at-Large program at the University of Chicago have already completed their bachelor’s degrees and enroll in regular graduate and undergraduate courses (with adequate prerequisites) at the University of Chicago. They have the opportunity to take courses at the College, in the Graduate Divisions of the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and at the graduate schools in Divinity, Public Policy, Social Work, Business, and Law.

About the GSALB program

Graduate Student-at-Large: Business (GSALB) students have the opportunity to deliberately explore the academic culture of the Chicago Booth School of Business, and participate in the rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education that consistently ranks Chicago Booth as the top MBA program in the world.

* All registrants will be sent a recording of the session within two business days after the event has passed.

Speaking at the event

Esther Pandian-Riske, GSAL Program Director

Esther Pandian-Riske, MA, MAPSS

Program Director, Graduate Student-at-Large

Esther Pandian-Riske is the Program Director of the Graduate Student-at-Large Program. Originally from Singapore, she came to Chicago as an international student and has two Master’s degrees from the University of Chicago: a MAPSS from the Graduate Division of the Social Sciences and an MPP from the...

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Assistant Director of Recruitment, Angie Hoang

Angie Hoang, MBA

Assistant Director of Recruitment

Angie Hoang serves as the lead advisor for prospective students to the Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics, Master of Science in Threat and Response Management, and Graduate Student-at-Large programs. Prior to joining the University, Hoang worked in post-baccalaureate admissions at...

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