We Prepare ...
Our students for graduate and professional school. They gain admission to the nation’s top universities.
Evidence:
Annually, approximately 25 percent of the graduating class pursues advanced study at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities and professional schools of medicine and law. Within the last three years, Augustana graduates have enrolled at Duke, Princeton, Kansas, Yale, Harvard, North Carolina and Washington University, among others.
During the last five years, 90% of Augustana students who applied to medical school were offered admission.
“This is the third law school (University of Southern California Law Center, 1976-1988, Creighton University 1988-2004) I have served and at all three schools I had the pleasure of working with graduates of Augustana College. Much of their success is due to the rigorous standards of the College. Augustana students came to law school prepared to study, to work hard, to write, to research, and to be an intellectual and inquisitive student in class. I attribute much of this success to Dr. Peter Schotten, a truly gifted and dedicated pre-law advisor, one of the very finest of his breed in America. He prepares his pre-law charges for what law school has to offer, and sends them to the schools that fit them. This is no small achievement, because so many other 'selective and highly-ranked' colleges and universities do not have anyone who works with their pre-law students like the gem Augustana has in Dr. Schotten.
I hope to have many more "Augie" graduates.They come with a smile, they are ready for the challenge, they exceed all expectations, and they leave with a 'thank you.' A dean and educator asks no more of a student.”Lawrence Raful, Dean
and Professor of Law
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Touro College (NY)
Augustana's pre-law advisor reports that virtually every self-identified junior pre-law student with at least a 3.2 cumulative grade point average was ultimately admitted to an American Bar Association accredited law school.
The College boasts a consistently high job placement rate for those seeking employment upon graduation. Ninety-four percent of the graduating class of 2010 reported that they had jobs related to their field of study within 8 months of graduation. One-hundred percent of those seeking business-related jobs, nursing and human services found employment. (The nursing class of 2010 achieved a 100% pass rate on the national nursing licensure exam.) Secondary education and elementary education majors were placed at a rate of 94 and 92 percent respectively. Twenty-five percent of the 2010 class enrolled in graduate or professional school (not included in the total placement percentage).
Augustana consistently leads the 26 colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in the number of seminarians per capita. In addition to Lutheran seminary enrollment, graduates are studying at Presbyterian, Methodist and United Church of Christ seminaries. In recent years, Augustana alumni have enrolled at Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Candler, and Union (NY) Seminaries.