精英研究院是指全美前15所医学,商学,和法学研究院。数据来自WSJ。
1 Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. 1,666 358 21.49% There’s no such thing as a sure bet. But for getting into a good grad school, a Harvard bachelor’s degree remains the next best thing. 2 Yale University New Haven, Conn. 1,286 231 17.96% What happened to school loyalty? More Yalies (40) are going to Harvard Law thisfall than Yale Law (30). 3 Princeton University Princeton, N.J. 1,103 174 15.78% One of the few Ivies without its own professional school, Princeton held its first grad-school fair last year. 4 Stanford University Stanford, Calif. 1,692 181 10.70% Based on our numbers, does a particularly strong job at spawning future MBA stars; med school could use work. 5 Williams College Williamstown, Mass. 519 47 9.06% An up-and-comer for some time, this “Little Ivy” did better than many of the actual Ivies. 6 Duke University Durham, N.C. 1,615 139 8.61% Studentsdo well here but may take their time; only 25% of graduates here go immediately to a professional school. 7 Dartmouth College Hanover, N.H. 1,101 93 8.45% Recently put its“credentials file” online to help students track recommendation letters from professors. 8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1,187 92 7.75% One of the best on our list at getting kids into business school, including more than two dozen into Harvard Business this fall alone. 9 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 431 33 7.66% Encourages use of grad-school advising services even after graduation. 10 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pa. 336 25 7.44% Enrollment hastripled in seven years for an honors program here that’s meant to mimic grad school with small seminars. 11 Columbia University New York 1,652 118 7.14% You’d think undergradshere would have an edge getting into itselilte law and medical schools. But several other Ivies sent more students. 12 Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1,506 98 6.51% Sixth-ranked Ivy tilted toward law in our figures; no formal pre-law program. 13 Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. 362 23 6.35% One of our bigger surprises. Nearly half of undergraduates say they’re going straight to grad school, up from 32% last year. 14 University of Chicago Chicago 948 59 6.22% Has 11 of its graduates at Wharton this year; its business school has new program encouraging seniors to return to Chicago for their MBA. 15 Wellesley College Wellesley, Mass. 585 35 5.98% Close to the Crimson: Pre-business association has field tripsto Harvard Business, where eight alums started this fall. 16 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 2,785 153 5.49% Penn’s medical school (not one of our survey schools) has the highest percentage of Penn undergrads in six years. 17 Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 1,666 85 5.10% Its highest numbers were at Harvard Business and Harvard Law—12 studentseach this fall. 18 Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. 291 13 4.47% Recently reinstated a grad-school orientation program. 19 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 404 16 3.96% Now has online service to help kids compile grad-school applications. 20 Rice University, Houston 764 29 3.80% President Malcolm Gillis says numbers in “surprising “ findings seem low. 21 Northwestern University Evanston, Ill. 1,978 73 3.69% Feeding itself: New option gives incoming freshmen in the undergrad engineering program a slot in at business grad school, too. 22 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, Calif. 271 10 3.69% Aspiring lawyers could do worse: School’s students landed at Chicago, Harvard, Michigan and Yale law schools. 23 Middlebury College Middlebury, Vt. 660 24 3.64% Officials say it’s a “feeder” for Dartmouth’s MBA, but our survey turned up only two alumsthere this fall (10 are at Harvard B-school). 24 Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore 1,272 45 3.54% Med school remains the most popular grad choice here. 25 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 3,565 115 3.23% Increased funding to advise women and minorities on grad school. Spokesman disputes “lasting meaning” of our survey. 26 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 310 9 2.90% Grad-school history: One of the first Ph.D. programs for women in the U.S. 27 Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn. 731 21 2.87% Within five yearsof graduating, 80% of Wesleyan grads wind up at some form of graduate or professional school. 28 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 249 7 2.81% Lighter on law than most in our top 50. 29 Morehouse College, Atlanta 501 14 2.79% Thisall-male, traditionally black college saysit has has actually scaled back student trips to top Northeast grad schools. 30 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. 5,720 156 2.73% Grad schools in our survey “should pay a bit more attention to geographic diversity,” honors-program chief says. 31 New College of Florida Sarasota, Fla. 113 3 2.65% At this “honors college” of the Florida state schools, professorsgiv e “narrative evaluations” instead of letter grades. 32 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 581 15 2.58% Saysit’s good for future doctors, but none at Harvard or Yale this fall. 33 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va. 3,213 82 2.55% The No. 3 public college on our list doesn’t have a university-wide honorsprog ram. 34 United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 966 23 2.38% Chief executives, Army-style: A surprising showing at Harvard Business (13 students this year) boosted West Point’s score. 35 University of Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 1,985 45 2.27% Less success at medical schools than some others in our group. 36 Emory University, Atlanta 1,509 33 2.19% Dean says of ranking: “Ivy begets Ivy.” 37 United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Md. 986 21 2.13% All business, sir: The bulk of its grad-school students ended up at Harvard, MIT and Wharton business programs. 38 Macalester College St. Paul, Minn. 406 8 1.97% Less widely known than some Eastern liberal-arts colleges, it pushes internships in health-care to help med-school prospects. 39 Brandeis University,Waltham, Mass. 815 16 1.96% School says it’s bringing in top grad schools for admissions fair. 40 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 417 8 1.92% Taps alumni to help students get key internships. 41 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. 6,198 118 1.90% Saysits kids are accepted to top grad schoolsin far greater numbers than choose to attend. 42 Barnard College, New York 588 11 1.87% Placed much lower than Columbia, the Ivy it’saffiliated with. 43 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 485 9 1.86% Grads of this liberal-arts school seemed to favor MBA programs. 44 Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 337 6 1.78% For kids interested in a specific grad program, networking program ties them with an alum who attended or worked there. 45 Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 1,246 22 1.77% Far from tops in Boston, but still edged out Boston College (No. 79). 46 Colby College, Waterville, Maine 471 8 1.70% LagsMaine rivals Bates and Bowdoin. 47 Washington University, St. Louis 1,709 29 1.70% Made our top 50, but one of the more expensive schools on our list (tuition is $28,300 a year). Says it’s “very successful” at placing students. 48 Washingtonand Lee, Lexington, Va. 413 7 1.69% No New Haven: School made our cut—but nobody at Yale Med or Law. 49 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 729 12 1.65% They’re working on it, with new annual conference giving advice on applying to graduate schools. 50 Reed College, Portland, Ore. 304 5 1.64% Sure, Carnegie Mellon—No. 51 on our list—had more students (19) get into our top schools, but Reed had slightly higher success rate |