worried about postdoc placement rate

Graduate School
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<p>i’ve been looking into molecular biology grad schools, and UC Berkeley seems like a really good program BUT, according to graduate-school.phds.org, they have a mere 53% job placement rate upon graduation: <a href=“http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/biochemistry/rank?w3=5&w1=5&w10=5&w7=5[/url]”>http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/biochemistry/rank?w3=5&w1=5&w10=5&w7=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>that is really alarming and strange since they have very reputable faculty and numerous citations. do you think it’s just an error?</p>

<p>also, does anyone have any suggestions for molecular biology graduate programs? thanks!</p>

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<p>It may very well be an error, but despite Berkeley’s high rank, the students who ended up matriculating there my year were not the strongest – Berkeley got the students who didn’t get into Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and UCSF.</p>

<p>Berkeley’s MCB program is also larger than many of the other top schools in molecular biology.</p>