Degrees for Education

Our Graduates

Graduates of the scientific learning area have pursued graduate studies at institutions such as University of Tennessee Medical School, Indiana University Medical School, Kentucky School of Dentistry, Mercer University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Veterinary School, Georgia Tech, University of Texas, and University of Virginia.

Over the past few decades, talented Milligan students who met all of the acceptance criteria for medical school, including doing well on the MCAT, have entered and performed competitively at medical schools throughout the country. Our graduates are serving their communities as teachers, health professionals, and industrial specialists. Many have chosen either full-time or short-term service as medical missionaries.

The Childhood Studies Minor, initiated in 1999, provides an educational opportunity for undergraduate students interested in a wide array of issues concerning children and the experience of childhood. The minor focuses on the life stages of infancy through adolescence but also includes issues of parenting, gender, and the place of children in society and culture.

Studies of the life cycle have earned CWRU national and international recognition. Cutting edge research and teaching on both children and the elderly is widely evident on campus. Studies of childhood and child development are important in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as in other sections of the campus including the School of Medicine and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Significant contributions to childhood issues also come from the School of Law, the School of Dentistry, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Close connections with Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, the Center for Adolescent Health in the School of Medicine, the Hanna Perkins Center, and other Cleveland institutions enhance the educational opportunities for students at CWRU. In addition, the Helen and Leland Schubert Center for Child Studies sponsors research and conferences on child development, and the Armington Program for the Study of Social and Moral Values in Children supports research and lectures on children’s issues.