Graduate Schools

Nearly 60 percent of Macalester graduates pursue an advanced degree within five years of graduating.

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2011 Graduates

Below is a listing of students who have chosen to attend graduate school.

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  • 3m Chen Gu, MIT, Biological Engineering
  • Allison Jacobel, PhD program at Columbia University, Oceanography and climate change
  • Michigan Law SchoolCali Cope-Kasten, University of Michigan Law School.
  • Michigan Law SchoolSarah Nilsson Dolah, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in International Affairs, Geneva
  • Caitlin Hannahan, London School of Economics.
  • Elizabeth Balskus, PhD Philosophy, University of Oregon
  • Michigan Law SchoolGerard Hoogvliet, MA in political theory at University College London.
  • Erica Geurts, Vanderbilt Divinity School (MTS).
  • Laura Leatherman, Vanderbilt School of Nursing.
  • Dan Rocklin, University of Chicago Divinity School.
  • Michigan Law SchoolSher Afgan Tareen, Harvard Divinity School MTS program.
  • Andrew Goodhouse, Bard Graduate Center in New York City, MA in decorative arts, design history, and material culture.
  • David Bliss, a master’s degree in history, University of New Mexico.
  • Kyera Singleton, PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan.
  • Jeff Yamashita, PhD in Ethnic Studies at University of California–Berkeley.
  • Candace Groth, Hamline University School of Law.
  • Alberto Rios de la Rosa, Art history master’s program, London’s Courtauld Institute.
  • Andrew Bonadio, Rochester Institute of Technology, pursuing an MFA in furniture/woodworking.
  • 3m Thomas Poulos, UCLA, Public Policy Affairs
  • 3m Jorge Banuelos, Statistics, University of California - Berkeley
  • 3m Emma Locatelli, Invertebrate Paleontology, Yale
  • 3m Jaye Gardiner, Cancer Biology, University of Wisconsin
  • 3m Allison Kennedy, High Energy Particle Physics, University of Minnesota
  • 3m Kwame Gayle, Princeton University

Top Grad Schools for Mac Alumni

  • Boston University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Duke University
  • Harvard University
  • Iowa State University
  • Loyola University Chicago
  • MIT
  • New York University
  • Notre Dame
  • Northwestern University
  • Oxford University
  • Princeton University
  • Stanford University
  • Temple University
  • University of California (Berkeley, UCLA)
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of North Carolina
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Yale University