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
