Outcomes of an Elon Education
Elon’s four-year graduation advantage
(Source: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 2021)
Student Professional Development Center
With the support of the groundbreaking Student Professional Development Center (SPDC), Elon students begin career planning early, identify internship and research opportunities, build their professional network and are well-prepared to find jobs or succeed in graduate school.
One-year outcomes report for the Class of 2021:
95%
Graduates who were employed, in graduate school, completing a fellowship or working for a service organization
92%
Graduates who accepted a position related to their career goal
88%
Graduates who completed an internship (both for-credit and not-for-credit)
About Elon’s SPDC: A four-year plan for career success
Staff members:
23
Specialized Career Offices:
Athletics
Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences- School of Business
- School of Communications
- School of Education
- School of Law
Highlights of services:
- On-campus interviews with employers
- Job and internship expos, and graduate and professional school fairs
- Individual career advising sessions
- Career and internship connections with alumni, parents and friends of Elon through The Elon Network on LinkedIn
- Elon Job Network — an online resource for job and internship searches
- Interview, resume and networking development — mock interviews and critiques
- Weekly hot sheets of job and internship opportunities
- Online career planning resources
- Individual and online assessment and interpretation
- Transition Strategies courses for life beyond Elon
- Career support for Elon alumni
Some of the many companies recruiting Elon students:
- Accenture
- Alarm.com
- ALKU
- Amazon
- AmeriCorps
- Amica
- AstraZeneca
- AT&T
- Baker Tilly
- Bank of America
- Berkshire Hathaway
- BlackRock
- Bloomberg
- BNY Mellon
- Boston Red Sox
- Capital One
- Citibank
- Credit Suisse
- Datadog
- Dell EMC
- Deloitte
- Epic Games
- Equitable
- ESPN
- EY
- Fidelity Investments
- Gartner
- Golin
- Havas
- Horizon Media
- Insight Global
- KPMG
- LabCorp
- L’Oreal
- Marcus & Millichap
- McKinney
- Mediahub
- Mental Health America
- Morgan Stanley
- National Institutes of Health
- Ogilvy
- Oracle NetSuite
- ParetoHealth
- Peace Corps
- Pfizer
- PNC Financial Services
- Procter & Gamble
- PwC
- Real Chemistry
- Red Ventures
- RSM
- SAP
- Spark Music
- Teach for America
- Telepathy Labs
- TJX Companies
- Vanguard
- Viacom
- WarnerMedia
- Wayfair
- Weber Shandwick
- Wells Fargo
- William Morris Endeavor