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Undergraduate Students' Interest in Pursuing Graduate Study - Spring 1998

From 1998 Senior Survey: What Students will be doing between When they leave CU (in Spring 1998) and the end of 1999:

Also:

• 66% say "Maybe" or "Highly Likely" they will be enrolled either part-time or full-time in graduate study.
• 85% expect ultimately to receive some type of advanced degree; most of these expect to earn masters (56%)

From the 1998 4-Year-Out Alumni Survey (of bachelor’s recipients):

• 15% of survey respondents were attending graduate school within 6 to 9 months after graduating from UCB.
• 27% were enrolled in graduate school at the time they completed the survey (4 years after graduation); 33% of those enrolled in graduate school were also working either full- or part-time.
• 80% expect ultimately to earn an advanced degree; most of these (61%) expect to earn a masters.
• 44% of respondents indicated that they had obtained or were currently working on an advanced degree; of these, 53% were pursuing or had obtained a masters.
• 34% of those who indicated further education had already received their advanced degree when they completed the survey.

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