Most Students Plan Work at Grad Schools

Graduate school is the immediate aim of over half the student body after graduation from the College, a poll of over 3000 upperclassmen made by the University's Office of Student Placement Shows.

Less than 15 percent of students in all classes definitely stated that they had no intention of doing advanced study, but 53 percent of the sophomores, 57 percent of the juniors and 56 percent of the seniors planned to go to graduate school. Thirty percent listed themselves as "uncertain."

Favor Arts and Sciences

What that post-graduate study will be for most is in the field of arts and sciences, the survey shows. Business schools rank second in preference, with law and medical institutions following third and fourth. Engineering, design, education, journalism, and theology were the choice of about five percent of the student body each.

Harvard was picked as the place where 86 percent of the students planning graduate work would like to study. Other choices were Columbia, Yale, Princeton, and Chicago.

Seniors Choose Business, Education

The study found that among upperclassmen medicine, law, and teaching are the most frequently chosen occupations in the professional field. Most seniors have their eyes fixed on a career in business or education, but the Placement Office called the interest shown in scientific research among younger men "significant."

The results of the survey showed that there was apparently little foundation to the belief that most students have jobs lined up before they graduate. Only five percent of the seniors have positions already definitely assured them.