Graduate Recruitment Resources (Post-application Phase)
These resources focus on the needs and questions of prospective graduate students who have applied and been accepted to UW-Madison and are making decisions about attendance.
Click on the links below for specific documents, or access all of these materials in Box at uwmadison.box.com/v/post-app-recruitment.
Please note, this KB doc and the Box folder collect various resources, for your convenience. Feel free to share individual PDFs or text excerpts with your prospective students, but not the link to this KB doc or Box folder.
- Recruitment video: for use on visit days, social media, or for students who cannot visit campus in person
- UW-Madison Graduate Reputation: PDF for printing* or attaching to email
- UW-Madison Graduate Reputation - Text version: Word doc for printing*, modifying, or copying/pasting into email
- Graduate Assistantship Benefits Overview: PDF for printing* or attaching to email
- Investing in Graduate Assistants: webpage for prospective graduate students
- Student Health Services flyer: PDF for printing* or attaching to email
- Graduate Student Professional Development flyer: PDF for printing* or attaching to email
- Multicultural Graduate Student Support flyer: PDF for printing* or attaching to email
- Recruitment Resource Links: Word doc for selecting relevant links to address questions of your prospective students, then copying/pasting into email or other document
- Multimedia Recruitment Resources: Word doc for selecting relevant links to address questions of your prospective students, then copying/pasting into email or other document
- Comparing Funding Offers: Word doc for copying/pasting into email, add your custom text
- Admissions and New Student Communication Overview: Interactive KB doc describing steps applicants and newly admitted graduate students go through and the communication they receive along the way. This is for program reference only, not to be sent to students.
Printed materials can also be requested from the Graduate School, free of charge to graduate programs. To request print materials, use this Qualtrics Survey.
Check this document at the beginning of every recruitment season to make sure you are using the most up-to-date versions of these resources. Resources will be updated annually.
Recruitment Resources Guide
For suggested uses for these recruitment materials, and more information on the types of resources the Graduate School provides, view the Recruitment Resources Guide.