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University Daily Kansan Friday, November 10, 1961
Kansas' Graduating Seniors Have Graduate School in Mind for Future
KU seniors are responding to the growing demand for trained personnel in all fields by deciding in steadily increasing numbers to continue their education beyond the four-year level, a recent survey of senior post-graduate plans reveals.
The survey, conducted at the beginning of this school year by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, found that 75.1 per cent of the 433 seniors enrolled in the College are preparing to continue their education after graduation.
A SIMILAR SURVEY TAKEN of last year's senior class revealed that 70.3 per cent of the class planned to continue its studies after graduation. The percentages for two and three years ago, respectively, were 66.4 and 58.4.
The most popular form of education beyond the four-year level for this year's class is graduate school, with 35.8 per cent of the class planning to enter this type of postgraduate schooling. Mathematics is the most popular graduate subject for this year's class, with 26 seniors planning to enroll in this field. Following mathematics in popularity is English, with 21 students; chemistry and history, each with 17 students; and political science, with 12.
Following the graduate school in importance for KU seniors are four professional schools, which together will attract 29.4 per cent of this year's graduating class.
MEDICINE IS THE MOST popular professional school this year with 15.3 per cent of the class planning to enter. Next in importance is law, with 11.2 per cent; medical technology, with 1.3 per cent; and dentistry, with .6 per cent.
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What factors are behind this ever-increasing number of KU students' planning post-graduate schooling? George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, listed five.
In contrast to the precedent set by the last three graduating classes, none of this year's seniors plan to enter theology.
- "This is a reflection of the changing times in that advanced study is necessary today if one is to make a contribution to the field of liberal arts and sciences."
- The KU honors program attracts students who are more disposed to graduate study than the average student.
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- The various KU professional schools, such as education, business,
engineering and architecture and journalism, are "to a greater extent than the College, terminal in nature."
- Financial support for KU seniors desiring to continue their education is increasing every year.
- KU students are becoming increasingly aware of the possibilities for study abroad through such KU foreign exchange programs as the Costa Rica junior year program, in which selected KU juniors and faculty members trade places with their counterparts in the University of Costa Rica.
Each person is born to one pos- Let thy speech be better than session which outvalues all his oth- silence, or be silent.—Dionysius The ers—his last breath.—Mark Twain Elder
Referring to this last factor, Dean Waggoner noted that last year's senior class received grants for postgraduate study totaling $229,923.
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