Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2019 Employment Snapshot
2019
CLASS OF 2019
DEGREE PROGRAMS AND STUDENT AFFAIRS EMPLOYMENT OCAOFFICE OF CAREER ADVANCEMENT SNAPSHOT HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL | OFFICE OF CAREER ADVANCEMENT CLASS OF 2019 EMPLOYMENT SNAPSHOT
Class of 2019 Employment Sectors Launching Public Service Careers
We invite you to explore where the HKS Class of 2019 is applying classroom training and experience as they National/Federal Government 20% IGO 7% address our many global challenges. This report reflects State/Provincial Government 4% City/Local/Regional Government 3% our graduates’ first positions immediately following their Kennedy School degree programs. % % 25 34 NONPROFIT/NGO PUBLIC & IGO
219 Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) 207 Master in Public Policy (MPP) Class of 2019 569 Graduates*
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62 % 81 Master in Public Administration/ 37 Master in Public Administration International Development (MPA) PRIVATE (MPA/ID)
*These 569 graduates received their degrees in May 2019. *Unspecified includes campaign work, new venture, or undisclosed.
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Class of 2019 Highlights
Our Graduates’ Salaries
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Averages and medians cannot tell the full story. As you will see in the following pages, our graduates are incredibly diverse—from the skills, 569 85% TOP 5 interests, and professional experiences graduates are working in they have, to where they live and work, 55 countries and of employers engaged only industry destinations for and their countries of citizenship. territories, 24 U.S. states, one graduate, reflecting a the Class of 2019 were Our Office of Career Advancement team works one-on-one with students Washington DC, and continued trend highlighting government, consulting, the unique career trajectories education, finance, and to navigate their unique situations and Puerto Rico help clarify salary expectations and of our alumni technology negotiate job offers. 92 countries/ territories represented in this class Some top destinations for the class:
THE U.S. FEDERAL INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT
The U.S. federal government continues Our data reflects 20% of Over 75 graduates joined 35 strategy to be our top employer: 48 graduates employed graduates are working and economic consulting firms in this class are working in 20 federal in international development on in 18 countries advising on topics departments and agencies. social, political, and economic as wide-ranging as sustainability, 94% 40% transitioned into the U.S. issues through government, infrastructure, diplomacy, energy, federal government. multilateral institutions such as the security, technology, and social of our graduates were World Bank and the United Nations, sector capacity building. employed, running for elected NGOs, and the private sector. office, launching a new venture, or continuing their education
OUR PROCESS: Numbers provided in this report have been rounded up/down, when necessary, to help simplify reporting. The HKS Office of Career Advancement (OCA) collected data from March through October 2019 using a variety of techniques, including an exit survey and follow-up survey in October, individual email inquiries, and publicly available sources. Employment information on 93% of the Class of 2019 May graduates is represented in this report.
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Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Employment Sector and Citizenship HKS graduates continue to choose diverse ways to incorporate public service into A comparison over the past five years Employment their careers working across sectors, policy areas, and industries around the globe. Sector In any given year, employment sector choice can be affected by market 60% 50% 60% fluctuations, significant global events, and 50% 55% 45% 55% Comparison politics. Many graduates, particularly in 45% 50% 40% 50% our joint and concurrent degree programs, 40% 45% 35% 45% are exploring the impact private industry 35% 40% 40% Over Time can have on pressing public problems. 30% U.S. and Permanent 30% 35% However, over time, reporting shows 25% 35% Resident Graduates 25% 30% two-thirds of Kennedy School sole degree 20% 30% 20% 25% graduates consistently choosing public or 25% 15% USA PERM RES 15% nonprofit/NGO employment as a first job. USA PERM RES 20% 10% 20% 10% 15% 5% 15% 5% MC/MPA 10% 0% MC/MPA 10% 0% 5% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 5% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 0% 0% Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 May Graduates 2015 – 2019 Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 80% Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified
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MPP0% Breakdown U.S. District Court for the Eastern International Refugee Assistance 0% SKDKnickerbocker 2015 2016 2017 2019 District of Louisana Project 2018 PUBLIC AND IGO 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total2019 Impact Capital Master in Public Policy U.S. District Court for the Northern Johns Hopkins Hospital Transit Bank for International Settlements District of Illinois Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGOSocial Finance Private Unspecified PUBLIC U.S. Federal Reserve Board TylerTech The rigorous two-year MPP Program prepares our students to City of New Orleans, Louisiana of Governors University of Colorado Family understand complex global and local policy problems and construct WXY Studio City of New York, New York Medicine Residency U.S. Judiciary concrete solutions. Through courses, exercises, and fieldwork, MPPs Weill Cornell Medicine and Africa Healthcare Network Commonwealth of Massachusetts New York Presbyterian Hospital master a conceptual tool kit that draws on the social sciences but is Bain & Company Federal Reserve Bank of New York World Economic Forum adapted for action. They arrive at HKS committed to improving the Boston Consulting Group Government of Brazil NONPROFIT/NGO Yale-New Haven Hospital world60% and equip themselves by developing broad-spectrum analytic Chime Government of Canada 50% competency.55% This translates into intellectual honesty, a hunger for % Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Future Energy Enterprises 23 Government of Colombia 45% evidence, and the capacity to extract answerable questions from 50% National/Federal Government 17% 40% Bridgespan Group Goldman Sachs Government of the District PRIVATE the messy clutter of real-world public problems. State/Provincial Government 3% of Columbia 45% 35% British Columbia Children’s Hospital Grab City/Local/Regional Government 3% Government of the Republic 40% 30% Catholic Relief Services Ad Hoc, LLC Hawkfish of South Korea 35% 25% Ceres AlphaBeta Hogan Lovells Government of Singapore IGO 30% 20% Children’s Defense Fund Amazon KKR Capstone Government of Sri Lanka 25% 15% Commonwealth Children’s Fund Asan* Macquarie Capital 207 Graduates Joint or Concurrent Degrees International OrganizationUSA PERM RES 20% for Migration 30% international 28 Business 10% Elton John AIDS Foundation AV&Co McKinsey & Company New York City Economic 15% 207 Representing 30 10 Medicine 5% Extinction Rebellion Behavioral Insights Team OODA Health Development Corporation Graduates countries/territories MC/MPA 10% 8 Law 0% Organisation for Economic Forward Cities Boston Consulting Group PharmaCCX 1 Design 5% Co-operation and Development 2015Harvard Humanitarian2016 Initiative Chord2017 2018 Ropes2019 & Gray LLP 0% % Reserve Bank of Australia Hecho Por Nosotros Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies TowerBrook Capital Partners 3 Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 State of Louisiana Institute for the Future of Work CrowdStrike Tyton Partners USAID Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified JustFix.nyc Delivery Associates X, The Moonshot Factory U.S. Air Force NONPROFIT / NGO Manhattan Institute Deloitte MPP Employment Sector Comparison Over the Past Five Years U.S. Army OneSky Devoted Health, Inc. U.S. Centers for Medicare Partners in Health ESAI Energy LLC COLLEGES/ & Medicaid Services UNIVERSITIES Planned Parenthood Federation Foreign Policy U.S. Department of Energy 50% 50% of America U.S. Department of Homeland Fortress Maritime Columbia University 45% 45% Princeton University Investment Co. Security Google Harvard Kennedy School 40% % 40% Public Policy Forum U.S. Department of State 32 Gramhal* Harvard University 35% 35% RAND Corporation U.S. Department of the Treasury Greentech Capital Advisors University of Pennsylvania 30% 30% ReThink Health U.S. Federal Government Guidehouse 25% 25% Save the Children Action Network Harvard Business School PRIVATE U.S. GovernmentInternational Accountability MPP ImmerLearn Inc.* 20% Office 20% Third Sector Capital Partners Harvard Law School Intelligent Machines Lab 15% U.S. Office of Management and Budget 15% Trustees of Reservations University of Minnesota U.S. Office of the Director of Massachusetts Itau Bank 10% 10% of National Intelligence Watchlist on Children and MarketShare Associates 5% 5% Virginia Economic Development Armed Conflict McKinsey & Company 0% Partnership 0% Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CAMPAIGNS 2015 2016 2017 2019 World Bank 2015 2016 The2017 New York Times 2019 2018 % Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2018 Elizabeth Warren for President 39 City of Tulsa, Oklahoma OpenAI Center for International Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Massachusetts Bay Transportation Environmental Law Palantir Technologies O’Rourke Campaign for President 3% UNSPECIFIED Authority (MBTA) Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Participant Media State of Connecticut Gates Ventures Pymetrics, Inc. 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PUBLIC Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bain & Company InternationalPublic and IGO DevelopmentNonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Bank of Japan Boston Consulting Group The two-year MPA/ID Program trains the next generation of Central Bank of Mexico Fannie Mae leaders in international development. This economics-centered Central Bank of Peru multidisciplinary program provides our students with meticulous Hindustan Unilever Limited Government of Chile training50% in analytic and quantitative methods with an emphasis on 50% Impulso * Government of China policy45% and practice. MPA/IDs demonstrate talent in economics and 45% McKinsey & Company % Government of Colombia quantitative40% analysis as well as leadership potential in international 22 40% Pharo National/Federal Government 20% Government of India development.35% Most have at least three years of development-related 35% State/Provincial Government 2% Siklus * Government of Japan work30% experience before coming to HKS, typically in developing or 30% D. E. Shaw & Co., LP transitional25% economy countries. Government of Madhya Pradesh, India 25% International McKinsey & Company MPP 20% Government of Peru 20% IGO Thorn Tree Capital Partners 15% Inter-American Development Bank 15%
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5% 85% international 6 Business United Nations Development Programme 5% 62 Representing 32 COLLEGES/ 0% World Bank 0% Graduates countries/territories UNIVERSITIES 2015 2016 2017 2019 2015 2016 2017 2019 2018 U.S. Office of Management and Budget 2018 Harvard Kennedy School Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified % Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 12 Ateneo de Manila University
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EMPLOYERS OF 2019 MPA GRADUATES Employment Sector MPA Breakdown Prinsiri Master in Public Administration PUBLIC AND IGO PRIVATE Sidewalk Labs SoftBank Vision Fund PUBLIC Bank of Thailand Amazon The two-year MPA Program equips seasoned professionals for TwentyFirstCenturyBrand Government of Brazil BlackRock positions of significant responsibility in the public, private, and Vanguard nonprofit sectors. Before coming to HKS, our students demonstrate Government of New South Wales, Australia Boston Consulting Group McKinsey & Company academic distinction, professional accomplishment and promise, Government of the Republic of Armenia KEY: *new venture graduate-level training, and at least three years of work experience. HM Treasury Point72 Ventures MPA graduates who earned combined degrees MPAs have significant latitude in designing their field of study U.S. Army TransWest and choose courses from a range of disciplines, and many pursue 10% World Bank Unitedhealthcare concurrent degrees in business, law, medicine, design, or another National/Federal Government 7% State of Connecticut Supreme Court Activate field with one of our 19 partner institutions, including other schools State/Provincial Government 3% World Bank Adobe at Harvard. Apple
Bain & Company IGO NONPROFIT/NGO Barclays 81 Graduates Concurrent Degrees Boston Consulting Group 53% international 48 Business Gyld * Challenger88 81 Representing 29 5 Deisgn LEAD Academy Clarify Health Graduates countries/territories 2 Law Yale New Haven Hospital Clean Energy Ventures 1 Divinity Deloitte 1 Medicine % 3 EY Infrastructure Advisory Figment *
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70% Google 45% Guidehouse 60% 40% % HR&A Advisors 5 35% 50% Innosight 30% 40% Instagram ALL 25% PRIVATE PROGRAMS JPMorgan Chase & Co. 30% SECTOR 20% COMPARION Kaidee 15% 20% LiveWell 10% MPA McKinsey & Company 10% 5% MDaaS Global * 0% 0% Microsoft 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 % 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 78 OZE * Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified PublicPerkins and IGO Coie LLP Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 4% UNSPECIFIED Powerhouse Fund
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EMPLOYERS OF 2019 MC/MPA GRADUATES Employment Sector MC/MPA Breakdown United Nations Capital Prosper Mama Africa * Development Fund COLLEGES/ PUBLIC AND IGO Rockefeller Foundation Mid-Career Master in United Nations Children’s Fund UNIVERSITIES US-ASEAN Business Council United Nations Entity for Gender Public Administration PUBLIC Abu Dhabi Judicial Department Columbia University Equality and the Empowerment Woods Services Asian Development Bank of Women (UN Women) Harvard Kennedy School
The intensive one-year MC/MPA Program trains highly accomplished Central Bank of West African States United Nations High Commission Harvard University mid-career leaders and professionals to study innovative ways to for Refugees 80% City of Chelsea, Massachusetts MIT tackle the world’s most complex public challenges. Our students United Nations Relief and PRIVATE City of New York, New York Works Agency 70% hone their skills, redefine their career goals, and pursue specialized 45% City of Oslo, Norway U.S. Air Force A.T. Kearney interests through a flexible curriculum—either at HKS, other Harvard 60% % Commonwealth of Massachusetts 40% U.S. Army AI Patents Mexico * CAMPAIGNS graduate schools, or schools in the Boston area. MC/MPAs come from 38 European Union 35% U.S. Coast Guard Allstate Insurance countries50% and territories around the world, a range of professions in National/Federal Government 28% Dave Cavell for Congress State/Provincial Government 6% Government of Australia 30% U.S. Department of Defense Alsons Aquaculture Corporation the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and go on to become heads of City/Local/Regional Government 4% 40% Government of Barbados U.S. Department of State state, cabinet ministers, military officers, diplomats, journalists, chief ALL 25% Boston Consulting Group PROGRAMS KEY: *new venture Government of Chile U.S. Department of the Treasury Danish Shipping executives,30% and nongovernmental organization directors. SECTOR 20% IGO COMPARION Government of Denmark U.S. Navy Docutribe 15% 20% Government of France West Kowloon Cultural District Enovate Capital 10% Authority MPA Government of Ghana Facebook 10% 219 Graduates 5% World Bank Governnment of Hong Kong SAR 59% international Google 0% 0% 219 Representing 73 countries/territories Government of India Gross Brown Law Firm 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Graduates 92 MC/MPA Edward S. Mason Fellows Government of Israel Happy Hearts * from developing, newly industrialized, NONPROFIT/NGO Public and IGO andNonprofit/NGO transitional economy countriesPrivate Unspecified % Government of Karnataka, India Indico Capital Partners * 11 Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified Government of Namibia Jamii * A Better Community Government of the Northern Jivaka care * Territory Anticorruption Institute Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP NONPROFIT / NGO Cambridge Community Foundation MC/MPA Employment Sector Comparison Over the Past Five Years Government of the Philippines Keystone Strategy Government of the Republic Data & Society Research Institute of North Macedonia Global Emergency Response Koldchain * 60% 50% Government of Ukraine Coalition KPMG 55% 45% International Committee Government of the United Kingdom Loopchat * of the Red Cross 50% 40% Inter-American Court Menkiti Group of Human Rights International Medical Corps 45% % 35% Mitsubishi Corporation 24 Khan Academy Inter-American Development Bank 40% 30% New North Ventures International Criminal Court Lazarus Institute * 35% 25% Polaris Capital Management International Organization LEAP | Pecaut Centre of Social 30% 20% PRIVATE for Migration Impact Project Finance LLC * 25% 15% Massachusetts BayUSA Transportation PERM RES Lemann Foundation SAP 20% Authority 10% Mayo Clinic Super7 15% Petrobras 5% Merage Israel Foundation T-Mobile MC/MPA 10% Singapore Armed Forces 0% National Governors Association TV Globo 5% South Brunswick Township, 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 New Jersey Partnership for a Healthier America 0% % Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter State Court of Bahia, Brazil Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 21 School State of New Mexico Population Connection Public and IGO Nonprofit/NGO Private Unspecified 6% UNSPECIFIED USAID
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2019 Joint/Concurrent Combined Degree Graduates Joint and Concurrent In the Words of 2019 HKS Graduates
Harvard Kennedy School offers two distinct combined degree programs to students in our two-year programs. The joint degree program with MPP either Harvard Business School or Harvard Law School features “After graduating, I plan to serve my integrated coursework that has been developed by faculty members from communities, advocate for social justice, HKS and HBS or HLS to provide a more holistic learning experience. 47 and be a public servant. Harvard Kennedy School helped me sharpen my knowledge The concurrent degree program allows you to pursue degrees at HKS TOTAL GRADUATES and skills to continue being a bold and at a partner school; however, the coursework is not as closely representing 23% of program progressive for social change.” integrated as the joint degree program. As a student in a concurrent — degree program, you are responsible for weaving together the two halves 28 Business, 10 Medicine, —Amanda Matos MPP 2019 of your learning experience on your own. 8 Law, 1 Design
2019 Sole HKS Degree vs. Combined Degree—Employment Sector Comparison MPA/ID “The MPA/ID program has been exactly what I needed. The program is rigorous and quantitatively focused, and I also had 6 the opportunity to focus on economic TOTAL GRADUATES and development theory. I’m leaving HKS representing 10% of program with a practical, holistic skillset to tackle — development challenges.” 6 Business Sole HKS Combined Two- —Daniel Barjum MPA/ID 2019 Two-Year Degree Year Degree Graduates Graduates MPA “The leadership, management, and communication skills that I have learned will be immediately applicable when 57 I return to my work at the U.N. I think TOTAL GRADUATES I am now better equipped to handle the 33% Public & IGO 10% Public & IGO representing 70% of program political and diplomatic maneuvering — Nonprofit & NGO Nonprofit & NGO that happens there.” 30% 18% 48 Business, 5 Design, 2 Law, 1 Medicine, 1 Divinity —Karen Mosoti MC/MPA 2019 34% Private 72% Private
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Employment Outside the U.S. Where Class of 2019 graduates reported employment
Armenia 1 Morocco 1
Australia 5 Nambia 1
Bahrain 1 Nigeria 3
Bangladesh 1 Republic of North Macedonia 1 Barbados 2 Norway 1 Belgium 1 Pakistan 1 Brazil 9 Paraguay 1 Canada 7 Peru 3 Chile 5 Philippines 4 China 6 Poland 1 Colombia 6 Portugal 1 Costa Rica 1 Republic of Korea 3 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2 Rwanda 3
Denmark 2 Senegal 1
France 3 Singapore 5
Germany 1 South Africa 1
Ghana 2 Sri Lanka 1
Hong Kong SAR 1 State of Palestine 1
India 8 Switzerland 6
Indonesia 5 Thailand 3
Israel 9 Ukraine 1
Jamaica 1 United Arab Emirates 3 Japan 4 United Kingdom 9 Jordan 1 Uzbekistan 1 Kenya 2 Vietnam 1 Lebanon 1 Zambia 1
Mexico 6 Outside the U.S., 14 Mongolia 1 unspecified 166 TOTAL
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Employment Within the U.S.
Where Class of 2019 graduates reported employment Alabama 1
California 29
Colorado 4
Connecticut 8
Florida 3
Georgia 1
Illinois 4
Kansas 3
Louisiana 4
Maryland 1
Massachusetts 83
Michigan 3
Minnesota 3
New Hampshire 2
New Jersey 6
New Mexico 1
New York 54
North Carolina 1
Oklahoma 1
Pennsylvania 6
Puerto Rico 3
South Carolina 1
Texas 5
Virginia 4
Washington 5
Washington D.C. 59 308 TOTAL Within the U.S., unspecified 13
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