So you want to go to Graduate School?
New College’s emphasis on undergraduate research and close collaboration between students and faculty provides great preparation for graduate school.
In fact, The Wall Street Journal has ranked New College as the nation’s #2 public university for sending graduates to elite law, medical and business schools!
It's little wonder. Since our founding in 1960, nearly two-thirds of New College graduates have gone on to graduate school, and within the sciences nearly one-third of our gradutes hold either a MD or PhD. Recent New College alums have earned full graduate scholarships to
Brown, Cambridge, Duke, London School of Economics, NYU, Penn State,
Stanford, University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, and the University of
California–Berkeley -- just to name a few.
Despite an alumni base of merely 4,000 students, New College graduates include a Rhodes Scholar, a Fields Medal winner, and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship recipient, three of the highest prizes in academe.
Furthermore, since 2000, more than 30 New College students have earned Fulbright Scholarships, easily ranking New College among the nation’s Top 10 liberal arts colleges in terms of per-capita Fulbright production.
The National Science Foundation also has recognized the quality of New College graduates, awarding three of our alumni Research Fellowships since 2005. Five others have received Honorable Mention.
