Graduate & Professional School

We're ranked in the top 4% of national liberal arts colleges producing successful Ph.D. candidates. About 65% of our alumni go on to graduate school within five years. This is not a coincidence.

Our students do the kind of work—intensive, hands-on, grounded in research—that leads organically to graduate and professional school. And they've worked with professors who a) are connected to advanced programs throughout the country, and b) know you exceedingly well, as a student and as a human being, which means they can help you find a program where you can do your best work, and that they can write an unusually thoughtful and thorough recommendation.

Recent alumni have enrolled in graduate or professional programs at these schools:

American University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Indiana University
MIT
New York University
Northwestern University
Purdue University
Rush University
University of California Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington, Seattle
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University

Knox maintains cooperative agreements with a variety of graduate and professional schools that provide Knox students with unique opportunities to further their education after Knox in the following fields:

• Medicine (early admission)
• Business (direct admission) 
• Law (scholars program) 
• Engineering (3-2 dual-degree program)
• Foresty & Environmental Management (five-year, dual-degree program)
• Occupational Therapy (3-2 program)
• Optometry (combined degree program)