Education: Who's Commencing?

June used to be the season when college seniors got off Pop's back and onto a payroll. But across the nation's campuses this year, the B.A. or the B.S. is mostly a ticket to further education. The great majority of seniors at top colleges—and close to a majority at scores of others—plan to study another one or two years, if not another three or four. June is bustin' out all over with graduate students.

Roughly 70% of Harvard's 1962 seniors are bound for immediate graduate study, against 54% in 1957. The rate is 67% at...

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