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.
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 85% of the class allow us to tell the story of our seniors’ outcomes with confidence.
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
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Employed | 2015 80.5% | 2016 79.8% | 2017 84.2% | 2018 78.1% | 2019 84.6% |
Graduate School | 2015 14.9% | 2016 15.8% | 2017 13.4% | 2018 18.0% | 2019 12.5% |
Volunteer Service | 2015 1.4% | 2016 1.0% | 2017 0.5% | 2018 0.6% | 2019 0.1% |
Fellowships | 2015 0.6% | 2016 0.7% | 2017 0.3% | 2018 0.0% | 2019 0.7% |
Traveling | 2015 0.5% | 2016 0.7% | 2017 0.2% | 2018 0.3% | 2019 0.2% |
Other* | 2015 0.5% | 2016 0.0% | 2017 0.5% | 2018 1.2% | 2019 0.3% |
In Transition/Seeking | 2015 1.6% | 2016 2.0% | 2017 0.9% | 2018 1.8% | 2019 1.0% |
Total Knowledge Rate** | 2015 85.5% | 2016 87.3% | 2017 87.6% | 2018 88.6% | 2019 89.1% |
This dashboard contains the top industries, employers, graduate areas of study, and institutions attended by members of the classes of 2014-2019. It is filterable by class year, academic division, and/or the academic department in which students majored or minored.
This dashboard contains individual employment and continuing education outcomes for Colgate graduates from the classes of 2014-2019. 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.