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University CLASS OF 2018 Career Center Post-Graduation Destinations Survey

Susan Bauer Executive Director June 2018

The Yeshiva University Career Center conducted a post-graduation survey of 579 undergraduate students, who completed YU in the 2018-2018 academic year as indicated by Banner and the Registrar’s office. Through the outreach efforts of the Career Center, including online and phone surveys, internal data on YU employment and graduate school enrollment, as well as reliable external sources such as LinkedIn, the overall results are included for 80% (N=463) of the Class of 2018. The methodology included data for Summer 2017, January 2018, and May 2018 graduates, consistent with guidelines set by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

SUMMARY

Top Industries of of undergraduate Class of 2018 had post- Employment 93% graduation destinations either at graduation • Accounting or within six-months of graduating • Education • Finance Services • Health Care/Medicine • Jewish Communal Service 80% of graduates responded to survey or were accounted for • Marketing through reliable internal and external sources (knowledge rate) 80% Top Areas of Graduate/ Professional Study • Dentistry • Education • Law 90.5% 74% • Medicine • Nursing of graduates of graduates • Social Work reported that their position was held one or more internships/ strongly or moderately related part-time jobs during their to their field of interest time at YU CLASS OF 2018 CAREER OUTCOMES

OVERALL 9% 2% 45% employment 37% 2% 4% 37% graduate school 93% 9% both of graduates 2% other have post-graduation 2% none destinations 45% 4% not seeking

BY COLLEGE 90% 93% 96% of Stern College for of School of of Yeshiva College (YC) Women (SCW) graduates Business (SYMS) graduates graduates have post- have post-graduation have post-graduation graduation destinations destinations destinations

35% employment 68% employment 39% employment 45% graduate school 11% graduate school 47% graduate school 9% still seeking 6% still seeking 10% both 6% both 5% both 2% other 5% none 8% none 2% none 1% other 1% other 1% not seeking

1% 1% 1% 5% 8% 2% 2% 6% 5% 10% 39% 9% 35% 6%

68% 11%

45% 47% BY MAJOR/CONCENTRATION (for majors/concentrations reporting at least 10 instances)

Accounting 96% 70% 14% 9% 4% 3% (70 respondents) employment grad school both none not seeking

Biology 91% 37% 46% 7% 1% 9% (82 respondents) employment grad school both other none

Business Intel 90% 60% 20% 10% 10% Marketing Analytics employment grad school other none (10 respondents)

English 83% 78% 6% 16% (18 respondents) employment grad school not seeking

Finance 97% 80% 9% 3% 3% 6% (35 respondents) employment grad school both none not seeking

Jewish Studies 100% 21% 36% 29% 14% (14 respondents) employment grad school both not seeking

Management 88% 52% 10% 10% 10% 19% (21 respondents) employment grad school both still seeking not seekng

Marketing 86% 67% 6% 12% 15% (33 respondents) employment grad school still seeking not seeking

Mathematics 94% 58% 16% 11% 5% 15% (19 respondents) employment grad school both still seeking not seeking

Political Science 88% 21% 47% 5% 11% 16% (19 respondents) employment grad school both none not seeking

Psychology 94% 36% 32% 13% 2% 5% 13 (56 respondents) employment grad school both other none not seeking

Shaped Major 100% 32% 59% 9% (22 respondents) employment grad school not seeking

Speech Pathology/ 100% 7% 93% Audiology employment grad school (15 respondents) BY GENDER 9% 4% 11% 6% 1% 1% 6% 40% 9% 56%

20% 38%

40% employment 56% employment 91% 38% graduate school 96% 20% graduate school of women graduates 6% both of men graduates 9% both have post-graduation 1% other have post-graduation 1% other destinations destinations 6% none 11% none 9% still seeking 4% still seeking

EMPLOYMENT AND GRADUATE SCHOOL STATISTICS

Top industries (by percent of employed graduates Full-time vs. part-time employment working in them: 258 respondents) (by percentage of employed graduates: 258 respondents)

25 250

20 200

15 150

10 100

5 50

0 0 Finance Accounting Non-profit/ Health Care Education Marketing Employed Employed and Total Social Service Only Grad School

Full-time

Part-time Top methods 34% other graduates used 5% YU Career Link to find jobs 8% YU Staff/Faculty (131 respondents; could provide 15% Job or Social Media Website multiple answers) 12% Internship Conversion to Job 5% Career Fair 8% Career Center On-Campus Recruiting 15% Alumni Contact

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

Salary Range Overall SCW SYMS YC

Less than $20,000 2.0% ----- 2.1% 4.0% $20,000 to $29,999 9.9% 31.0% 2.1% ----- $30,000 to $39,999 18.8% 41.4% 2.1% 24.0% Starting $40,000 to $49,999 11.9% 10.3% 6.4% 24.0% salaries (101 $50,000 to $59,999 15.8% 6.9% 21.3% 16.0% respondents) $60,000 to $69,999 17.8% 6.9% 27.7% 17.8% $70,000 to $79,999 8.9% ----- 17.0% 8.9% $80,000 and more 14.9% 3.4% 21.3% 16.0%

Relevance to career field of interest and major field of study (178 respondents) 82.2% 95.6% 88.4%

90.5% 82.2% of SCW graduates 95.6% of SYMS graduates 88.4% of YC graduates of graduates reported that reported that their position reported that their position reported that their position their position was either was either strongly or was either strongly or was either strongly or strongly or moderately related moderately related moderately related moderately related to their field of interest 81.6% 75.6% 89.1% 72.1% of graduates reported that their position was either 75.6% of SCW graduates 89.1% of SYMS graduates 72.1% of YC graduates reported that their position reported that their position reported that their position strongly or moderately related was either strongly or was either strongly or was either strongly or to their major(s) moderately related moderately related moderately related Internships and Part-time Jobs (381 respondents) 74% 55.6% 32.6% of graduates of graduates of graduates held one or more internships held two or more internships held three or more internships or part-time jobs during their during their time at YU during their time at YU time at YU

64.3% of SCW 44.2% of SCW 28.6% of SCW graduates held one graduates held two or graduates held three or more internships or more internships or or more internships or part-time jobs during part-time jobs during part-time jobs during their time at YU their time at YU their time at YU

88.9% of 70.4% of SYMS 41.7% of SYMS SYMS graduates graduates held two or graduates held three held one or more more internships or or more internships or internships or part-time jobs during part-time jobs during part-time jobs during their time at YU their time at YU their time at YU

67.4% of YC 53.3% of YC 27% of YC graduates held one graduates held two graduates held three or more internships or or more internships or more internships or part-time jobs during or part-time jobs part-time jobs during their time at YU during their time their time at YU at YU

Top fields of graduate/professional study (by percent of enrolled graduates in them: 166 respondents)

20%

18%

16%

14%

12%

10%

8%

6%

4%

2%

0% Law Nursing Other Medicine Dentistry Speech Social Work Pathology

4.8% 2.4% Degree Level Percentage 6.6% DDS 4.8% 8.4% JD 16.9% 38% Degrees sought Master’s 38% (166 respondents) MD 10.8% 10.8% Other 8.4% Nursing 12.2% 12.2% PhD 2.4% 16.9% Semicha 6.6%

CAREER CENTER USAGE STATISTICS

OVERALL

86% of SCW graduates 81% used the Career Center 85% of SYMS graduates of graduates used the Career Center used the Career 64% of YC graduates Center during their used the Career Center years at YU

FIRST-TIME USAGE

Year First Used the Career Center Overall SCW SYMS YC

First Year on Campus 42.1% 42.2% 52.1% 23.1% Second Year on Campus 30.8% 24.8% 34.2% 41% Third Year on Campus 19.9% 26.6% 11% 17.9% Fourth Year on Campus or Later 7.2% 6.4% 2.7% 17.9% CONCLUSION

The Yeshiva University Class of 2018 undergraduate graduating students demonstrate great promise as evidenced by the 93% post-graduation destinations career outcomes rate. Whether employment or graduate school was their intended goal, Yeshiva University recent graduates have achieved positive career results. Full-time employment increased by 5% from last year, with 92% (N= 206) of those employed holding full-time positions. In the graduate education outcomes data, law led as a top chosen field of study, and 38% of those students seeking graduate education were entering Master’s programs.

Overall, 57% of graduates reporting starting salaries indicated they were earning $50,000 or more. Sixty-five percent of Sy graduates were at starting salaries earning $50,000 or more, a notable 9% increase over the prior year.

EMPLOYER SAMPLING

Alliance Bernstein CityMD HASC Norman Bobrow and Co., INC AMI Real Estate Inc. Cloudcraft, Inc Homeland Security NYU Langone Health Anderson Tax of Psychiatry Houlihan Lokey Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP Conde Nast Discount Bank Paxos Trust Company Bank Haploin Credit Suisse JP MOrgan Chase & Co Pivotal Software Bank of America Cross River Bank KPMG Premium Merchant Funding Bar-Ilan University Curvature Securities LLC Live Nation Entertainment PwC Berdon LLP Deloitte Logicworks Ramaz Upper School Berkley Research Group Drum Circle Analytics Magen David Yeshiva Reproductive Medicine Associates Bloomingdale’s Evercore Marcum LLP of (RMA) Blue Ocean Reality LLC EY Mazars RSM US LLP BMO Capital Markets Fitch Ratings Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center St. Peters University Hospital Bloomberg LP Goldman Sachs Mercer TD Securities BNY Mellon Google Microsoft Walker and Dunlop Booz Allen Hamilton Grant Thorton Moodys Investor Service Westchester Day School Carleton Energy Consulting Greystone & Co. Morgan Stanley Yeshiva University Centers Health Care Hackensack University Medical Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine Chainalysis Inc Harbor Group Management Co. LLC NCSY CITI Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy New YOrk Presbyterian Hospital

GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL SAMPLING

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Hofstra University University of Pennsylvania Bank Street College Katz School University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine Baruch College NYIT Wurzweiler School of Social Work Boston University Yale University Law Pace Yeshiva University Cardozo Law School Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley Rutgers University Columbia University Sackler School of Medicine Cornell Law Seton Hall University CUNY Graduate Center St. John’s University SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine Harvard University Technion American Medical School Hebrew University University of Chicago Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine