A New College education provides an excellent foundation for post-baccalaureate study in the professions. New College graduates have been admitted to the most prestigious professional schools in the nation, where they have launched distinguished careers. This section discusses business, law, and medicine, but these are not the only professional areas that attract New College graduates. Students have entered graduate professional school in agriculture, architecture, divinity, engineering, journalism, and other fields, and their undergraduate majors have been varied. Schools of business are diverse, varying in educational method and in the subject matter they emphasize.
Some programs are highly mathematical.
They emphasize financial analysis, systems design, and mathematical modeling. Others emphasize organization and management, with direct application of knowledge to practical business problems. Whatever their approach, the most prestigious graduate business schools prefer applicants from demanding liberal arts colleges. Many of those applicants will have majored in economics, but by no means all. New College students entering business school have concentrated in psychology, history, the natural sciences, and Medieval studies, as well as economics.