Response Rates by Major - 2000
The response rate varies considerably with the graduate's major. While no responses were received from Information Systems, Pre-Medicine, and Public Administration graduates, other majors had a greater than 25% response rate.  Majors with a greater than 25% response rate were: Accounting, Classics, Computer Science, German,  Historic Preservation and Community Planning, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and Urban Studies (see Table 4).

Table 4
Response Rates by Major

Major  Total Graduates  Response Rate
Accounting     40    10 (  25.0%)
Anthropology     41     8 (  19.5%)
Art History     19     4 (  21.1%)
Arts Management     32     1 (   3.1%)
Biochemistry     13     1 (   7.7%)
Biology   134   24 (  17.9%)
Business Administration   225   46 (  20.4%)
Chemistry     14     2 (  14.3%)
Classics       4     1 (   25.0%)
Communications   248   51 (  20.6%)
Computer Science     28     7 (  25.0%)
Economics     15     3 (  20.0%)
Elementary Education   134   24 (  17.9%)
English     57   13 (  22.8%)
French     16     1 (   6.3%) 
Geology     13     1(    7.7%)
German       4     1 (  25.0%)
Historic Preservation/Community Planning     18     5 (  27.8%)
History     72   12 (  16.7%)
Information Systems       8     0 (  0.00%)
International Business       9     1 (11.1%)
Marine Biology     33     6 (  18.2%)
Mathematics     13     3 (  23.1%)
Music     13     1 (    7.7%)
Philosophy       6     2 (  33.3%)
Physical Education     48   10 (  20.8%)
Physics     18     5 (   27.8%)
Political Science     73   26 (  35.6%)
Pre-Med      1     0  (0.0%)
Psychology   151   26 (  17.2%)
Public Administration       8    0  (  0.0%)
Sociology     58   13 (  22.4%)
Spanish     33     4 (   12.1%)
Special Education     20     2 (   10.0%)
Studio Arts     47     7 (  14.9%)
Theatre     29     1 (   3.4%)
Urban Studies      12     3 (  25.0%)
Total 1707  325 ( 19.0%)
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