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Success After Wooster

Philosophy majors at Wooster have gone on to successful careers in law, business, computer programming, teaching, social work, ministry, journalism, publishing, and medicine.

For example:

  • Ashok Pakiam '96 is a research analyst for Fox television
  • Emily Lyons '93 is a research biologist with her Ph.D. from Cambridge University
  • Richard Crouse '88 is a vice president at Ohio Savings Bank
  • Tom Hetrick '84 works as a special agent for the FBI
  • Margaret Plews-Ogan '77 is a physician and professor at the University of Virginia medical school
  • Solomon Oliver '69 is a U.S. District Court judge
  • Kathleen Dean Moore '69 chairs the Department of Philosophy at Oregon State University

In addition, recent philosophy majors have gone on to study philosophy in graduate school at Princeton University, The University of Notre Dame, Duke University, London School of Economics, and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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