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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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166 Sixteen Tears at the University of Illinois DEGREES CONFEBBED IN 1904 AND IN 1918 Degrees in Pharmacy PLG. Ph.0. Total Total, Departments in Chicago Total, All Departments - 43 38 4 48 815 633 42 185 928 The total number of degrees granted in the undergraduate colleges rose from 235 in 1904 to 602 (779)• in 1918, a gain of 367 (571), or over 156 (243) per cent. The professional schools, on the other hand, all show a loss in the number of degrees conferred. In 1904, 384 degrees were granted in Law, Library Science, Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy—over 60 per cent of the entire number granted by the University. I n that year the number granted in the Chicago Departments, 315, was only three less than the total number granted in all the departments at Urbana. In 1918 the number of degrees conferred in the professional schools was 203 (220), or less than 22 (18) per cent of the total number conferred by the University in that year. This decrease is due in part to the much higher entrance requirements prevailing during recent years, and in part to the economic fact that the supply of professionally trained men and women is likely to come in response to a demand—real or supposed—for persons so equipped; whereas the student in the undergraduate college chooses his course largely with a view of acquiring a general education, leaving his final choice of a vocation to be made at a later time. There was a steady increase in the number of degrees granted in the Graduate School during the fourteen years from 1904 to 1918. However, the number of degrees granted to graduate students dropped from 197 in 1917 to 123 in 1918, a loss of 74 or nearly 38 per cent. During the fourteen year period from 1904 to 1918, the total number increased from 14 in 1904 to 123 (197) in 1918, a gain of more than 778 (1,307) per cent The degrees of Master of Arts and Master of Science were con*Tho figures in parenthesis are those for 1916-17.
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