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Graduate School Information

  • 24% of students attend graduate school upon graduating from Wellesley

  • 10% go to medical school immediately upon graduating.

  • 10% go to law school immediately upon graduating.

  • 5% go to business school immediately upon graduating.

  • 80% of all Wellesley graduates continue on to graduate school within 10 years.



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Available Majors and Career Preparation
  • Wellesley offers over 60 departments, majors, and programs of study ranging from Architecture to Astronomy to Middle Eastern Studies. See the entire list of available majors at Wellesley.

  • Interested in Engineering? Wellesley offers a double degree program with MIT through which students can earn a B.A. from Wellesley and an S.B. from MIT over five years. Learn more.

  • Interested in Pre-Law? While no particular track or major is necessary to apply to law school, many students will major in political science and benefit from the pre-law advisory group on campus. Students can also take advantage of the numerous internships available, including the Wellesley in Washington program, and courses in a wide range of academic disciplines that introduce them to aspects of the law. Learn more.

  • Interested in being Pre-Med? Wellesley offers a variety of science programs to prepare students to apply to medical school. Wellesley has majors and programs of study such as Biological Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Biological Sciences which pre-med students may want to consider.

  • Interested in Business? Wellesley offers majors including Mathematics and Economics to prepare students for future work in business.

Articles and Interesting Tidbits
  • Wellesley College graduates are no strangers to the world stage. This preeminent women’s college has long educated its students to become global leaders. Now one of its most prominent alumnae, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, will help new generations of Wellesley women to make a difference in the world. This January, Wellesley will launch the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs to heighten the global perspective of Wellesley’s academic environment and to prepare students for positions of world leadership. Albright herself will serve as the first of a series of distinguished visiting professors, sharing her vast experience as a diplomat and leader.

  • Wellesley, Olin and Babson Colleges Announce New Partnerships. Wellesley College, one of the country’s premier liberal arts colleges, Olin College, one of the country’s leading engineering colleges, and Babson College, the top-ranked college for the study of entrepreneurship, have formalized a collaborative agreement that builds on their geographic proximity and complementary curricula to explore the synergies in the schools’ three missions.

  • Wellesley College graduates Jessica Berlow ’03, Jennifer Jensen ’09 and Katherine Musgrove ’09 have received appointments to the United States Foreign Service – joining the ranks of another famous Wellesley diplomat. “It just seemed fitting that we will be serving under (Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton, really letting Wellesley leave its mark on the State Department,” Jensen said. Each completed rigorous evaluation and testing, sometimes lasting more than a year. Of the more than 20,000 applicants, only between 250-500 were ultimately offered a spot.




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