ABSTRACT
The highest ratio of graduate students to undergraduates is to be found neither in science nor in social studies but in architecture and other professional and vocational subjects. The percentage of social studies students going straight into graduate education was only half that in pure science. Within the subject groups, there are variations between the individual subjects that resemble those between the groups. There are wide variations within some of the groups in the percentages of graduate students doing research. Mathematics has a higher proportion of advanced course students than other science subjects because substantial numbers of students, including many from other fields, take advanced courses in computing or statistics. Institutions can be grouped according to the strength of their research orientation by taking their position on the two variables - graduate students as a percentage of all students and income from research grants and contracts as a percentage of all income.
