The Most Popular Masters Programs

There are many reasons people apply to graduate school. Some people apply to a graduate program with hopes of one day becoming a professor or researcher, while others enter a graduate program in order to further their current career, especially in those areas where a graduate degree is necessary for advancement, such as social work or psychology.

Regardless of your reasons for applying to graduate school, the number of people applying to your desired graduate program may be of interest to you. If you are planning on pursuing a graduate degree for professional reasons, knowing the number of people with intentions of obtaining the same degree (and ultimately competing for similar jobs) helps you to determine how competitive your field will be. On the other hand, if you are planning on pursing a graduate degree for academic purposes, the number of applicants in a given field will give you an idea of how large the field itself is, which can have a substantial impact on the amount of funding researchers receive in grant money.

The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has compiled statistics for the number of students taking the GRE with the purpose of attending specific graduate programs, and these numbers are given below. The ETS statistics are intended to give you an idea of the size of the applicant pool, as well as the size of the graduate program itself.