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No no no. Berkeley's law, business, and med school placement is "a little weak." Placement for real grad school (where you get a PhD) is extremely strong.
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<p>Actually, I don't know about that. I am not aware of any evidence that would indicate that Berkeley's PhD placement is significantly better than its professional school placement. </p>
<p>Take the career report of, say, the sociology grads. Look at which PhD programs they matriculated at. The 3 listed are Arizona, UCSC, and UCSB. That's not exactly the cream of the crop. </p>
<p><a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Soc.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Soc.stm</a></p>
<p>Or take Chemical Engineering. While some placed into some top-notch PhD programs (i.e. MIT, Stanford, Minnesota - which is a top ChemE program), others got placed into UCDavis, RPI, or even Louisiana State University. While I don't want to insult anybody's choice of career (and certainly getting into the PhD program at LSU is better than not getting in anywhere at all), I don't know that going to LSU for a PhD is what most Berkeley chemical engineering students really want. </p>
<p>But go and check the PhD placement reports for the various majors yourself if you don't believe me. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that the placements are bad (and in fact, I suspect they are still better than the placements of any other UC), I don't see any reason to believe that the PhD placement is better than the professional school placement.</p>