Career and Continuing Education Outcomes

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Colgate’s liberal arts approach prepares graduates for success in a wide variety of careers. Explore our students’ first post-graduate employment and continuing education outcomes.

The following dashboards will allow you to explore our most recent classes’ employment, continuing education, and competitive fellowship outcomes. 

The content displayed represents self-reported, employer-reported, or verifiable public data gathered six to nine months following students’ graduation. Our robust knowledge rates — or the percentage of graduates for whom verifiable data exists — of at least 87% of the class allow us to tell the story of our seniors’ outcomes with confidence. 
 

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
  Employed 2017 84.2% 2018 78.1% 2019 84.7% 2020 73.7% 2021 76.9%
  Graduate Studies 2017 13.4% 2018 18.0% 2019 12.6% 2020 18.7% 2021 21.3%
  Volunteer Service 2017 0.5% 2018 0.6% 2019 0.1% 2020 0.4% 2021 0.0%
  Fellowships 2017 0.3% 2018 0.0% 2019 0.8% 2020 0.9% 2021 0.5%
  Travel 2017 0.2% 2018 0.3% 2019 0.3% 2020 0.0% 2021 0.0%
  Other* 2017 0.5% 2018 1.2% 2019 0.4% 2020 0.8% 2021 0.5%
  In Transition/Seeking 2017 0.9% 2018 1.8% 2019 1.1% 2020 5.5% 2021 0.8%
  Total Knowledge Rate** 2017 87.6% (640/731) 2018 88.6% (622/702) 2019 89.2% (659/739) 2020 89.8% (658/733) 2021 88.0% (618/702)

*  Includes military service and care for family members. 
** Percentage of graduates for whom verifiable self-reported, employer-reported, or public data exists six to nine months post-graduation.

Recent Alumni Employment Locations

Review an interactive map displaying the location of the first job, graduate school, fellowship, or military service outcomes for recent alumni.

Snapshot of the employment map for recent alumni
Click to view interactive global map.

 

 

 

 

Top Employer and Graduate School Information

This dashboard contains the top industries, employers, graduate areas of study, and institutions attended by members of the classes of 2017–2021. It is filterable by class year, academic division, and/or the academic department in which students majored or minored.

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Individual Employment and Continuing Education Outcomes

This dashboard contains individual employment and continuing education outcomes for Colgate graduates from the classes of 2017–2021. It is filterable by class year, academic division, and/or the academic department in which students majored or minored. Results will display graduates’ employers, graduate institutions, industries, and geographic locations of their first post-graduate outcome. 

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