What is the Career Profile of Most Top School Classes

College Search & Selection
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<p>My understanding is that the career profile of an Ivy League University class ten years out is that it would be about 20% Med School, 40% Law School, 10% Tenure track Academia, 10% Business (Mainly in Finance related fields like I-Banking, Venture Capital, etc. or Consulting), 5% Journalism and the rest spread over a wide variety of fields. My take is that top school people almost never work for big companies in fields like engineering,marketing,etc.</p>

<p>Does someone have a profile of say a Stanford or Columbia class to confirm or not confirm this understanding.</p>

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<p>I highly doubt any school sends 40% of it's grads to law schoolor 20% to med school</p>

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<p>Looking at maybe Cornell, I bet there are a lot of engineering graduates who work for engineering firms. The profile you have there is very oversimplified.</p>

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10% Tenure track Academia,

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<p>I don't know how to take this. You can't enter tenure-track academia with just a bachelor's degree.</p>

<p>If you mean to say that 10% of the class goes on to pursue Phd's with the hope of eventually getting into tenure-track academia, that might be believable. But getting into tenure-track academia straight away? That's impossible.</p>

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<p>I think the guy means the latter-pusuing the PhD and ebntering tenure tracdk academia</p>

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<p>I think the poster just made up numbers honestly~</p>

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<p>the percentages are way too high. and graduates do work for big companies. otherwise these fortune 500's wont have any ivy-caliber management. </p>

<p>in reality, ivy league graduates work in a wide spectrum of jobs. they do place a lot of students into graduate and professional school as well as other top business jobs, but there's also a good percentage of the student population that's not interested in any of those.</p>

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<p>Right. the numbers are way off what is normal. </p>

<p>Here are the normal numbers:</p>

<p>60-70% go straight into the work force, 40-70% of those into buisness-related fields
30-40% go to graduate programs, among which law is the majority, then med is second largest
Remaining percentage are unemployed or not seeking employment</p>

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I think the guy means the latter-pusuing the PhD and ebntering tenure tracdk academia

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<p>If that's what he meant, then clearly that 10% figure is far too high and I am therefore strongly inclined to believe, as others have alleged, that the numbers were simply made up.</p>

<p>To wit: plenty of people who start PhD programs will not actually complete them. Even of those that do, a large chunk of them won't get or don't want a tenure-track academic position. So what happens to all the people who fall along the wayside?</p>

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<p>Here's a web site that shows you what Yale students are doing one year after college graduation (with historical data going back to 1975):</p>

<p><a href="http://www.yale.edu/oir/factsheet.html#Graduate_Activities%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/oir/factsheet.html#Graduate_Activities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This year, 6% were in law school, 7% in medical school, 5% were in other professional schools, and 9% were in graduate programs in the arts & sciences. (Almost no one goes straight to business school from college.)</p>

<p>Yale's Undergraduate Career Services Office info from 2003 showed that only 25% of the Yalies who were applying to law school that year were seniors. Most people take off some time in between college and law school. </p>

<p>Fewer people take off time between college and medical school, I hear.</p>

<p>Stanford has something like 1640 graduates in a typical year. In 2004, 77 seniors applied to law school; 65 were admitted to at least one school, and 52enrolled. The total number of graduates from all Stanford classes who applied to law school that year was 460, of whom 380 were admitted to at least one school; 305 enrolled.</p>

<p>It looks like 18.5 percent of Stanford graduates end up practicing law. The percentage is a little higher at Yale; my guess is that the larger number of engineering students at Stanford is responsible for most of the difference.</p>

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<p>At MIT, about 50% of graduates enter graduate/professional school, 40% enter the workforce, and 10% take a year off or hadn't decided what they were going to do at the time the</a> survey was taken.</p>

<p>The "graduate/professional" school figure isn't broken down futher, but if I had to estimate, I'd say that (out of the whole class, not just the grad/prof school kids) about 10% go to medical school, 5% to law school, and 35% to masters/PhD programs.</p>

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<p>Just wondering, but happens to people who start a Ph.D but don't finish? What do they end up doing? (especially if they're in a highly theoretical field).</p>

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Just wondering, but happens to people who start a Ph.D but don't finish? What do they end up doing? (especially if they're in a highly theoretical field).

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<p>They often times take a master's degree and then just get a regular job. Some of them enter a different grad program, especially a professional program like law school or, once they develop some work experience, business school.</p>