As the Class of 2011 prepares for Commencement in just over two weeks, the Office of Career Services has found that 88 percent of last year's graduates are either employed full time or are enrolled in graduate or professional school, according to results of survey information collected earlier this semester.
Key findings for 2010 graduates include:
· 60 percent are employed full-time.
· 34 percent are enrolled in graduate or professional school (10 percent of whom are also working), an all-time high for Elon students and nearly doubles the number compared to the class of 2009.
· Of those employed, 4 in 5 report that their position “is related to my career objective.”
· 88 percent of the class completed an internship (another all-time Elon high) prior to graduation.
· 36 percent indicated their career lead came from an internship.
· 81 percent utilized Career Services while at Elon (70 percent is the current national average, according to the National Association of College and Employers).
Elon students continue to be accepted at top tier graduate and professional schools throughout the nation. Reported medical school acceptances for the 2010 class included Yale, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins, Emory and Texas, among others. Students from all four of Elon’s schools reported graduates enrolling in law school, including William and Mary, Boston University, SUNY, Northeastern, Case Western Reserve, Emory, Duquesne and John Marshall.
Graduates with majors from the Elon College of Arts and Sciences once again were accepted to a wide variety of master’s, specialist and doctoral programs at colleges and universities such as Harvard, Duke, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, George Washington, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Baylor, Rutgers, Maryland, Clemson, Brandeis and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
While the general employment picture remained unsettling for many job seekers, a majority of Elon’s 2010 graduates reported they were prepared to compete and succeed for the positions they sought.
Among the diverse employers hiring Elon students were top organizations such as: IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America, The Philadelphia Phillies, Ernst& Young, EMC Corp., NBC Universal Entertainment, Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Turner Broadcasting, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Cartoon Network, The Walter Reed Army Research Institute, Polo Ralph Lauren, Republican National Committee, Institute for Defense Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.