Macalester teams frequently qualify for the International Collegiate Programming Contest and recently tied with Stanford, Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon and Harvard. The debate program has been nationally ranked among the top ten for decades. Each year Macalester students win an impressive number of post-graduate awards, including Fulbright Scholarships, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships and more.

Graduates also fare well in the job market and graduate programs. The pre-med advisor notes that “Macalester students are courted by top med schools and graduate programs.” One recent graduate reports from UCLA that she was “accepted into top med school choices: Mayo, Stanford, UCLA and Minnesota” and another that he had a “striking advantage over many other candidates” and is now enrolled in the PhD program in economics at Princeton University.

More than ever a Macalestet education provides the best (and most practical) skills because of two important changes affecting our economy—rapid technological change and globalization. Macalester cultivates the ability to succeed in a work environment defined by new challenges and change. And Macalester graduates enter the work force with real experience in a global community.