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Interview Question Examples 
  • What are your long-range career goals?
  • What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree in ____?
  • For what career area are you preparing?
  • Why do you think you'd be happy and successful in that career?
  • Why did you apply to this particular program? Where did you hear about us?
  • Why should we accept you into our program? How would you describe yourself?
  • Tell us something interesting about yourself.
  • What are the most important rewards you expect in your graduate training? In your career?
  • What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
  • What two or three accomplishments in your life have given you the most satisfaction?
  • How do you work under pressure? How do you handle stress?
  • You will be required to take some rigorous courses that may not be of much interest to you. How do you feel about taking such courses?
  • What major academic problem have you faced and how did you deal with it?
  • What did you particularly like about your undergraduate education? What did you like least?
  • What could you add to our department?
  • Have you been involved in any research?
  • Give me some examples of your doing more than was required in a course.
  • Is there anything additional we should know about you?
  • If you don't mind telling us, what other schools have you applied to?
  • Do you have any ambitions to teach?
  • Give us some examples of your creativity, initiative, maturity, and breadth of interest.