Students do not necessarily graduate with the skills for specific career. They graduate with a deep background in the humanities and natural sciences, having read classics and masterpieces from those areas. Emphasis is also placed on integrating studies. What this means is students graduate ready to be flexible, ask questions and keep learning. Kids at Shimer have a thirst for knowledge.
Most Shimer students go onto graduate programs.
The average Shimer student outscores three of four potential graduate students on the Graduate Record Exam, and a 1998 study by the University of Wisconsin named the college third in the nation in percentage of students who continue their education with doctoral degrees. Such intellectual curiosity, Stone argues, is even more crucial in today's technological world. Students who have gone through a Shimer curriculum can ask these kinds of questions. With just 107 students, Shimer retains a very intimate setting where classes gather at round tables and teachers don't lecture, but guide discussion. More people should come here.