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<p>Times sure have changed. When I was in school, many top students at the most selective universities would be expected to go into academia, the arts, publishing, and public service, in addition to medicine and law. I’ve read that in recent years, as many as 40% of Harvard graduates go into IB and consulting. Nothing against those lines of work, but something is not working anymore if these schools can’t motivate more of their best students to look past the bottom line in choosing careers. </p>
<p>So what’s the situation at Oxford and Cambridge? Are more and more graduates choosing to become bankers and business consultants? Forget about who is cranking out more research paper citations, let alone who is getting jobs with Bain and McKinsey. Who is educating more scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals?</p>