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 87% of the class allow us to tell the story of our seniors’ outcomes with confidence.
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
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Employed | 2016 79.80% | 2017 84.20% | 2018 78.10% | 2019 84.70% | 2020 73.70% |
Graduate Studies | 2016 15.80% | 2017 13.40% | 2018 18.00% | 2019 12.60% | 2020 18.70% |
Volunteer Service | 2016 1.00% | 2017 0.50% | 2018 0.60% | 2019 0.20% | 2020 0.50% |
Fellowships | 2016 0.70% | 2017 0.30% | 2018 0.00% | 2019 0.80% | 2020 0.90% |
Travel | 2016 0.70% | 2017 0.20% | 2018 0.30% | 2019 0.30% | 2020 0.00% |
Other* | 2016 0.70% | 2017 0.50% | 2018 1.20% | 2019 0.50% | 2020 0.80% |
In Transition/Seeking | 2016 2.00% | 2017 0.90% | 2018 1.80% | 2019 1.10% | 2020 5.50% |
Total Knowledge Rate** | 2016 87.3% (591/677) | 2017 87.6% (640/731) | 2018 88.6% (622/702) | 2019 89.1% (659/739) | 2020 89.8% (658/733) |
* 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.
This dashboard contains the top industries, employers, graduate areas of study, and institutions attended by members of the classes of 2016-2020. 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 2016-2020. 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.