Public Affairs | What's Excellent About Earlham

Just as Earlham makes a difference in the lives of its students, Earlham alumni are making a difference in all 50 states and in 56 countries around the world. They are scientists, teachers, lawyers, ministers, executives, physicians, writers — concerned leaders, involved citizens and caring parents, achieving their personal career goals while working for the common good. Whether you choose to work one-on-one or in a small organization or at the societal level; whether you opt to work internationally or locally; whether your interests lie in the business world, the nonprofit community, governmental service or elsewhere — you will join a proud tradition of Earlham alumni who are engaged in changing the world.

Lifelong learning and graduate degree pursuits

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An Earlham education enhances intellectual growth. Earlham alumni have reported for many years that their alma mater prepared them well for post-baccalaureate education. In fact, Earlham is ranked 23rd among 1,469 institutions of higher learning in the U.S. in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D.s. In terms of overall doctoral productivity, Earlham ranks in the top three institutions among the members of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Within the overall group of 1,469 institutions, Earlham ranks 8th in Life Sciences, 11th in both Earth Sciences and Geosciences, 29th in Social Sciences, and 34th in Humanities.

Earlham graduates are well prepared for further study: 25 percent of alumni who graduated from 1997 to 2004 received graduate degrees; 44 percent of alumni who graduated from 1997 to 2008 enrolled in graduate school.
87% of the students who graduated in 2004 are attending one of their top three choices of graduate or professional schools.

Earlham seniors also have been very successful in achieving recognition through awards of national fellowships, such as the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowships and others. Earlham graduates have enrolled in many of the most respected graduate programs, including Indiana University, University of Illinois, University of California, Columbia, Harvard and the University of Michigan.

Our alumni rate the Earlham experience more favorably than do alumni rating their experiences at comparable institutions. Aspects of an Earlham education that are rated highly by our alumni include contact with Earlham faculty, the quality of teaching and the courses in their majors. Our alumni also report that Earlham is more effective in enhancing competencies such as understanding moral issues, relating to people of different cultures or races, and gaining intellectual self-confidence.

Graduate schools attended (a partial list)
American University Boston University Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Duke Emory George Washington Georgetown Harvard Indiana University Johns Hopkins New York University Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio State Oxford University, England Penn State Princeton Purdue University	Rhode Island School of Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Stanford Tulane Tufts University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Illinois University of Massachusetts University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania University of South Carolina University of Texas University of Wales University of Wisconsin Washington University Vanderbilt Yale
Employers (a partial list)
American Civil Liberties Union American Friends Service Committee American International Group American Red Cross Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Boys and Girls Clubs Cisco Systems Eastman Kodak Environmental Protection Agency Federal Communications Commission Federal Reserve Bank Friends Committee on National Legislation General Motors Girls Scouts of America Habitat for Humanity Human Genome Sciences, Inc. Intel Tokyo Latinos en Acción de CCI Lutheran Family and Children's Services	Marriott Foundation Mercy Corps Microsoft Corporation National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health National Park Service National Public Radio Natural Resources Conservation Service Paine Webber Pfizer Global Research & Development Planned Parenthood Seventeen Magazine Smithsonian Institution The Courier-Journal The Nature Conservancy The Student Conservation Association, Inc. U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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