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Alumni Demographics: The nearly 20,000 alumni of Bates College live all over the world, and work in a wide variety of fields.  Bates alumni do not cluster around a specific career, nor is Bates a breeding ground for a particular industry or organization.

Alumni Achievements: What do Bates alumni do after Bates?  In recent years, over 70% of Bates alumni have earned degrees beyond the bachelors.  They attend excellent graduate schools and are engaged in a wide variety of careers.

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Did You Know?

Bates graduates have earned at least 918 doctoral degrees in academic fields between 1966 and 2005.  In the period 1966-2005 Bates ranked 42nd in the number of academic doctoral degrees awarded to alumni of 163 Liberal Arts 1 colleges.  But in the most recent decade (1996-2005), Bates' rank had risen to 26th. (Source: National Science Foundation, Survey of Earned Doctorates.)

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