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What about life after Reed?
graduate and professional schools most
often attract Reed alumni?
What about life after Reed?
Reed ranks first in the nation in the percentage of graduates who receive
a Ph.D. in life sciences. Reed ranks third nationally in percentage of
alumni who receive Ph.Ds. in all fields. See results
of the 2008 alumni survey, including the graduate schools alumni
most often cited for law, medicine, business, and other graduate study,
top employers of Reed graduates, and the occupational distribution of
alumni.
Alumni have won the Pulitzer Prize, been awarded MacArthur "genius" grants,
co-founded Apple Computer, been secretary of the U.S. Navy, written screenplays
for Paramount, designed economic theory for the World Bank, been conservator
of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and led the American
Women's Himalayan Expedition. They have also enjoyed satisfaction
and success as prize-winning journalists and poets, ambassadors, congressmen,
mayors, technology entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, university presidents,
research scientists, corporate honchos, award-winning astrophysicists,
teachers, physicians, lawyers, musicians, rabbis, painters, and playwrights.
The possibilities are unlimited.
What graduate and professional schools most often attract Reed alumni?
- For M.D.s: Harvard, Stanford, UC San Francisco, Cornell, Washington, and Oregon Health and Science University.
- For Ph.D.s: Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Cornell, Washington, and Oregon.
- For J.D.s: Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Oregon, Stanford, the University of Washington, and Lewis & Clark .
- For M.B.A.s: Chicago, Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Portland State, Stanford, Berkeley, and Georgetown.
