Philosophers Excel on Standardized Tests
Philosophy students have higher average scores on entrance exams for graduate and professional schools than most other students. This suggests that the study of philosophy develops a set of skills important for success in a very broad range of fields.
GRE scores from 1988–1991 show that philosophy majors had:
- the highest mean verbal score of students in all majors
- the 2nd highest mean analytic score of students in all majors
- a higher mean quantitative score than ALL other humanities and social science majors
Mean LSAT score for philosophy majors is:
- higher than for both political science and non-philosophy pre-law majors
- the 5th highest for all humanities and social science majors according to a 1994 study
GMAT scores from 1991–1996 show that:
- the mean score is higher for philosophy majors than for any type of business major
- outside of hard sciences, philosophy had either 1st or 2nd highest mean GMAT score each year
- including hard sciences, mean GMAT score for philosophy majors is tied for 4th among all majors
WSU Philosophy Majors Excel in Writing
From 2001 to 2007, 22% of our majors earned the highest ranking possible (Pass with Distinction) on their Junior Writing Portfolios. This rate was second only to English majors among all programs in the University with 30 or more majors during that period, and it is nearly triple the university average.
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