Graduate School and Career Trends Among our senior concentrators in the classes of 1998 and 1999, two students from the class of 1998 went directly into graduate programs and one student from the class of 1999 went onto graduate school. We have seen a trend over the last 3-4 years of fewer students going directly to graduate school, and perhaps (although this is difficult to assess without more data) a trend of fewer graduate degrees overall. 1998 and 1999 were very good years for students to find jobs immediately after graduating with a BA, and a number of our seniors got great positions with top-notch companies. The booming economy is certainly a factor in the smaller numbers going on to graduate schools, but we still encourage our students to think carefully about graduate school as an option.