For example, science and engineering courses, which generally have excellent graduate outcomes, attract far fewer applicants per place than dance and drama.
The university is proud of its student diversity, links with industry and excellent graduate employment record (82% of 2007-2009 graduatenteredred graduate-level jobs, against a UK average of less than 70%).
The Royal College of Art showed excellent graduate work, but leading the charge was the ever-brilliant Tom Dixon, who nabbed the entire Museum of Science and Technology to host his new creative centre, Most, which was jam-packed all week.
There are also excellent graduate opportunities in public health which do not always involve laboratory research.
My own research work depends on excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Funding agencies can offer fellowships that reward excellent graduate students with support at the end of their doctoral training so that they can launch their early careers.
I'll remain part-time at the University of Toronto, where I still have a lot of excellent graduate students, but at Google I will get to see what we can do with very large-scale computation.
"We have excellent graduate schools, but that means we are training all these students, and I wonder, where will they end up?" Research funding, she says, is relatively healthy in Finland, by international standards.
This collective work has been largely positive, but it is worth noting that an educator's idea of an excellent graduate (that is, one who engages critically with ideas and can write about those ideas in a clear and concise way) does not always match an employer's idea of an ideal employee (that is, one who will fit into the work setting quickly and effectively).
Tillman proved an excellent cadet, graduating 3rd out of 39 in the USMA graduating class of 1869.
