The Top 10 Colleges Send The Highest Percentage Of Students To Grad School

Planning on going to graduate school after college? US News and World Report recently compiled a list of the 10 colleges with the highest percentage of students that go on to grad school. Food for thought.

The Report has more:

Of the 1,756 undergraduate programs surveyed by U.S. News, 627 reported the percentage of their 2009 graduating class that had gone on to pursue a graduate degree within a year of graduation. Among those schools, an average of 25.5 percent of students opted to attend graduate school within a year of receiving their diplomas. A handful institutions, however, are well above that average. At Yeshiva University, 89 percent of graduates went on to graduate school within a year, by far the most of any school in the nation.

Check out our slide show of the top 10 colleges that send the highest percentage of students to grad school. Then tell us, do you think grad school is important to consider when picking your college? Weigh in below!

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Yeshiva University (NY) 89%

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[Roger Augustus]

02:58 PM on 08/24/2011

University of Delaware ('90 here) was the country's #1 party school when I matriculated. It was listed on none of these slide shows, and now is not even a good party school anymore. Back in 89, the local police established a drug tip hotline, which led to the Presidents mansion being reported as a crack house several times a day. Now the UD police have a canine unit......rumor has it that they are using girls from Alpha Phi as trainees. Most of what I learned about writing there I learned from Hunter S Thompson and Norman Mailer, anyway. It was as good a way as any for my parents to keep me off the unemployment line for 5 years. I am now pursuing an AA degree from a junior college that will actually PAY MY BILLS. Yes, I am a good writer (with no talent), but writing is a hard dollar, and unless you are in the right place at the right time, you will end up doing something else to pay the rent. I always wonder what would have happened if I had invested as much time in my studies as I did in beer, weed, and chasing girls. I would probably be an anchorman at CNN by now.....and THAT is the REST of the story.

[kanzelc]

09:27 AM on 08/20/2011

I think that it depends on what area the student wants to go into. Also, right now it is difficult for people to find jobs, so if grad school is needed for what the person wants to do, they should just do it!

[standard]

06:36 PM on 08/16/2011

Reed and Columbia aren't on that list? I think it may be quite incomplete.

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

03:30 PM on 08/16/2011

Not good. I prefer Post grads who have a few years experience in the real world before they go. Otherwise they become pure academics and we have enough of those already. Just look at the White House. Totally incompetent in real world situations.

[Vic22]

02:31 PM on 08/16/2011

This just implies that degrees from these schools rarely get you anywhere without having to go on to grad school

[bahkey]

11:44 AM on 08/16/2011

After BS. from these schools, you probably have to go to the next level.

[gr8bsn]

09:41 AM on 08/16/2011

Grad school: When regular debt isn't enough, why not make it sub-epic?

[Fercho]

07:10 PM on 08/15/2011

A truly moronic selection.

[dmgoss]

02:43 PM on 08/15/2011

Complete fail on what is already a pretty inane practice of using false equivalences as an excuse to post a slideshow of pictures of university buildings. Obviously, some majors are more competitive than others. One can't compare Cal's English PhD with Harvard Med School or Yale Law or an MA in any subject at a state school. Further, all graduate programs within a major are not created equal, complicated by the fact that all grad programs in one university do not carry the same quality or prestige. But I guess all you're really talking about is getting in somewhere. Or worse, just parroting USNWR's bad habit of creating lists based on nonobjective and diverse criteria that stokes enrollment to schools purely based on what position they inhabit on a list. Lame.

[davesf]

03:27 PM on 08/16/2011

"...a pretty inane practice of using false equivalencies as an excuse to post a slideshow of pictures of university buildings."

Funniest thing I've read all day!

[ericjames]

12:25 PM on 08/15/2011

Pretty impressive for Georgetown College (KY), where Frank & Jesse James' father Rev. Robert Sallee James was educated, and where James family in-law Rev. Jeremiah Vardeman founded the School of Theology. Both Robert & Jeremiah proceeded to found William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. In recent years, I am proud to have given the Founders' Day Address at Georgetown.

[Roger Augustus]

03:07 PM on 08/24/2011

Any relation to Henry James? He never married or had kids, but i think his brother William was straight, got married, and had kids. James was a truly great author......the kind of guy you have to party with at least once in your life, if possible! What would james have made of Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Accosta? These are the kind of things i wonder about at night, when the kids are in bed.......

[ericjames]

06:00 PM on 08/26/2011

The Henry James family is a New York family. DNA tests assert there is no relation.

[glenn beaton]

11:29 AM on 08/15/2011

Hmm. I'm not sure that a statistic showing that people graduating from a particular college wind up having to go to another college in order to obtain a degree with which they can get a job and earn a living, is something the college should be boasting about.

[palindrom]

09:15 AM on 08/15/2011

Is there any distinction made here between graduate programs (PhD and MS/MA programs) and professional programs (law school, med school, business school)?

[marcchagal]

08:27 AM on 08/15/2011

I don't know where these people get their information, but UC Berkeley is known to turn out more Phds. than any university in the country.

[palindrom]

09:14 AM on 08/15/2011

I think the criterion was what proportion of undergrads go on to grad school, not how many PhDs the school turns out. Many of these schools do not have PhD programs.

[h jablome]

08:43 PM on 08/15/2011

i'm betting you didn't get one in reading comprehension.

[113]

12:16 AM on 08/16/2011

LMFAO, my thoughts exactly. I'm embarrassed for marcchagal.