{"id":3715,"date":"2020-06-17T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/?page_id=3715"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:39:36","slug":"get-connected","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/why-bu\/getting-a-masters-at-bu\/get-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Boston University graduate student, you have access to an invaluable career resource: our alumni. They are more than 300,000 strong in 189 different countries and excited to help our students and fellow alumni launch and advance their careers. You\u2019ll find BU alums among worldwide leaders in virtually every field, including academics, industry, the arts, nonprofits, and government. It\u2019s just one of many resources we offer for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/cd-pd\/\">career development<\/a> and advancement.<\/p>\n<h3>Get professional advice.<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-advisory-network\/\">Career Advisory Network<\/a> is BU\u2019s online directory of nearly 8000 alumni volunteers who are eager to share career advice and networking connections with you, both while you\u2019re a student and when you become a fellow alum. You can even do sortable searches by industry, location, and more to help make finding an advisor easy.<\/p>\n<h3>A lifelong asset.<\/h3>\n<p>When you earn your degree from Boston University, you automatically become a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/\">BU Alumni Association<\/a>. So you\u2019ll be connected with our extensive alumni network throughout your career. In addition, BU alumni receive a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/services\/\">perks<\/a> including discounts and educational and cultural travel opportunities.<\/p>\n<h3>A worldwide asset.<\/h3>\n<p>As mentioned, our alumni are represented in virtually every industry all around the world. <strong>Alumni meet for events everywhere from New York to Los Angeles to Shanghai.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Boston University graduate student, you have access to an invaluable career resource: our alumni. They are more than 300,000 strong in 189 different countries and excited to help our students and fellow alumni launch and advance their careers. You\u2019ll find BU alums among worldwide leaders in virtually every field, including academics, industry, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"parent":3716,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3715\/revisions\/4534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/grad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}