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This year, 28 percent of the Business School’s graduating class entered “market-sensitive” sectors, which include investment banking, hedge funds, and private equity, among others. That is down from a record high of 41 percent in 2008, according to Soifer’s report...
According to Soifer’s research, the indicator reached its all-time low in 1937, when only 1 percent of graduates went to work on Wall Street...
...Council of Graduate Schools survey, released today, found that while the number of Americans applying to domestic graduate programs increased six percent—the largest increase since an 11 percent uptick in 2002—the number of international students from certain countries has dropped as much at 16 percent...
...survey reports a 16 percent decrease in graduate enrollment from India and a 13 percent decline from South Korea, while China was one of few countries to defy this trend with a 16 percent increase...
Americans seem willing to make this sacrifice, but just barely. About one half of Americans support health-care reform, even though only roughly one fifth of Americans predict a material gain from such support of a national system. According to a recent CBS poll, only 22 percent of Americans “said the reforms now being considered would help them personally,” while 30 percent even believed that “reforms would hurt them personally.” In the same poll, 53 percent favored “the government offering everyone a government administered health...