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In addition to a firm grounding in the history of philosophy, graduates of the philosophy program have mastered the reading, critical thinking, and analytical skills essential to success in any profession. Their abilities to think and write clearly, to grasp the intricacies of difficult problems in any field, and to communicate that understanding to others are qualities much sought after by employers. While some of our graduates go on to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy and become philosophy professor themselves, others go on to graduate education in other fields such as law, communication, and business. Philosophy is one of the top two or three academic disciplines whose students score highest on the Law School Admissions Test and our graduates have gained admission to a variety of law schools. One of our graduates was awarded the prestigious Clarence Darrow Scholarship to the University of Michigan Law School.

For more information about how philosophy majors do compared to other majors on the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), GRE (Graduate Record Examination), and the GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test):

A comprehensive study of college students' scores on major tests used for admission to graduate and professional schools (LSAT, GRE, GMAT) shows that students majoring in Philosophy received scores substantially higher than the average on each of the tests studied.

Philosophy Majors received higher scores on the LSAT than students in all other humanities areas, higher scores than all social and natural science majors except economics and mathematics, and higher scores than all applied majors. Philosophy Majors scored 10% better than political science majors on the LSAT.

Philosophy Majors outperformed business majors by a margin of 15% on the GMAT and outperformed every other undergraduate major except mathematics.

Philosophy Majors' scores on the verbal portion of the GRE were higher than in any other major, even English.

Philosophy Majors scored substantially higher on the GRE than all other humanities majors and were alone among humanities majors in scoring above the overall average.
The study compared the scores of 550,000 college students who took the LSAT, GMAT, and the verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE with data collected over the previous eighteen years and was conducted by the National Institute of Education and reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education.