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North Central Class of 2015 First Destination Report

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The information below reflects the post graduate plans and activities of the Class of 2015.

This report includes: • Data collection process • A summary of the overall statistics for the class of 2015 “Placement” numbers • Jobs obtained related to major or area of study • participation • Reasons why members of this class have not accepted full-time employment • Number of applications and acceptances • Number of graduates who utilized the services of the Career Development office • Data comparison from previous years • List of full-time employers • List of internship sites • List of graduate and professional schools • List of graduate degrees and programs of study

Collection Process:

750 Students graduating between 9/14 - 6/15

653 Student responses

87% Knowledge Rate

For any graduating student who was not employed full-time or accepted into graduate school at the time of June graduation (information gathered via Qualtrics or a hard copy of the survey), each alum was contacted six months later to verify their status. Over 400 alumni were called 3 separate times each during the evening hours in December, with a voice message left the first two times by the caller. Following the 2nd round of calling, a text message was sent with a link to the Qualtrics survey. If an individual was not reached, a daytime follow up call (100+) was generated to each of those alumni. If no information was obtained via phone, the internet was utilized (LinkedIn or Facebook) to obtain employment or graduate school status for over 80 alumni. Additionally, information was collected from 3rd parties such as parents, coaches and administration. In total, 97 individuals did not respond to our efforts to gather information.

Summary:

Graduates contacted are Employed Full-Time* 427 (67%) Includes 5 participating in full-time volunteer or service program Includes 2 enlisted in the Military Graduates contacted are Attending Graduate School or continuing education (20%) 125 (Includes 24 graduates who also work full-time)

14 (2%) Graduates contacted are Engaging in Post-Graduate Internship//Student teaching

Graduates contacted are Employed Part-Time (13%) 80 Within Major: 31 NOT Within Major: 49

10 (2%) Graduates contacted are Unemployed /Seeking Employment

*Total exceeds 100% due to 24 graduates attending graduate school and employed full-time simultaneously *20 students were not seeking employment or post graduate activity following graduation and were not included in the analysis

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Class of 2015 Destinations: A 85% of the class of 2015 who was contacted is either Employed Full Time employed Full-Time, 2% attending Graduate School or participating in 2% 13% Post Graduate service or academic activities. Attending Graduate School or continuing education 16% 98% of the class of 2015 who was 67% contacted is either Engaged in Post Graduate employed (Full-Time or volunteer or service Part-Time), attending activities (Full Time) Graduate School, or participating in Post Employed Part-Time Graduate volunteer or service activities.

Class of 2015 Destinations: B

2% Employed Full Time, Attending Graduate School, Employed Part Time

98% Seeking/Unemployed

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Employment as related to field of study of the members 78% of the Class of 2015 who responded to this 22% question stated that their full-time or part-time job relates to their North Very Connected Central major or field of 52% 26% Somewhat Connected study. Not Connected

(For a list of places of full-time employment for the Class of 2015, see page 9.)

48% of the students participated in a for- Internship/Student Teaching credit or non-credit internship sometime Participation by the class of 2015 during their four years in college. An additional 8% Completed Student Teaching.

8% Completed Internships 80% of those responding reported that these opportunities 48% provided skills and Did Not Complete experiences that helped 44% them obtain their first Internship or Student job. Teaching Completed Student 20% of those involved in experiential learning Teaching received full-time job offers from their internship or student teaching site.

(For list of sites where members of the Class of 2015 interned, see page 12.)

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Of the respondents, Graduate Program Acceptance 23% (143 members of the graduating class) applied to attend graduate of those who applied school for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Of those who applied, 13% 87% of them had been accepted. (Does not include 10 pending applicants) Accepted 92% indicated that their Not Accepted graduate program was 87% very connected or somewhat connected to their undergraduate field of study.

(For a list of graduate degrees and institutions for members of the Class of 2015, see page 14.)

Satisfaction with Education: In relation to investment made in North Central College education, degree of satisfaction with employment or other post-graduation plans

Post-Graduation Satisfaction Rate 85% of the members of the Class of 2015 who responded to this question stated that they either highly satisfied or 11% 4% satisfied with the 33% investment they made in Highly Satisfied North Central in relation to their employment or Satisfied other post graduate plans. Less than Satisfied 52% Not Satisfied

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Reported Annual Base Salary:

Annual Base Salary

4% 10% 21% Less than $20K 17% $20K-$30K $31K-$40K 21% $41K-$50K 27% $51K-$60K Over $60K

*Full-Time only

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Industries in Which Class of 2015 are Employed:

Industries of Graduate Employment 25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

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2013-2015 Graduate Comparison

2013 2014 2015

Number of Graduates 628 695 750

Number Contacted 76% (480) 78% (541) 87% (653)

Use of Career 69% (331) 58% (313) 62% (405) Development

Satisfaction with Career 87% (287) 87% (279) 83% (336) Development

Participated in an 65% (312) 49% (259) 48% (314) Internship 59% including 56% including Student Teaching Student Teaching

Employed Full-Time 65% (312) 62% (337) 67% (427)

Not Seeking 1% (8) 2% (11) 3% (20)

Unemployed 3% (15) 5% (25) 2% (10)

Employed Part-Time 12% (58) 12% (65) 13% (80)

Volunteer/Service <1% (2) <1% (2) 1% (5)

Post-graduate 3% (15) 2% (12) 2% (15) Fellowship/Internship

Military <1% (1) 0% (0) <1% (2)

Applied to Graduate 16% (103) 19% (133) 23% (143) School

Accepted to Graduate 18% (87) 19% (107) 20% (124) School

Graduate School 84% 80% 87% Acceptance Rate

Composite Including Part- 98% 95% 98% Time Employment

Composite Excluding 86% 83% 85% Part-Time Employment

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Utilization of Career Development: 62% of the graduating seniors confirmed that they had used the services of Career Development, with 83% of those finding the services useful.

List of Full-Time Employers for the Class of 2015

3WON LLC Bridgedale Academy AAU British Petroleum Abercrombie & Fitch Buikema Ace Hardware ABN AMRO C.H. Robinson ABT Electronics Cardinal Health Accelis Pharma Carson Elementary School CCI Green Heart Actors Training Center CCSD Schaumburg 54 Adoption Foundation CDK Global ADP CDW Advocate Health Care Condell Medical Center CH2M ALDI US Chase Banking ALE Solutions Inc. Bears Alexian Brothers Health Hospital Chicago Public Schools Allegras Energy City of Elgin Allendale Association City Year Alliance Marketing Inc. CityStaffing Allstate CLEAResult American Airlines Clover Technologies American Cancer Society CM Services Anixter Inc. CNL Financial Services Anne Fox Elementary Cognitive Arts Apartments.com Community Christian Church Apple Inc. Compass Mortgage Applied Systems Concordia Argonne National Laboratory Country Club Hills School District 160 Ash Lawn Opera CrossFit Naperville Associated Bank Crossroads AT&T Cunningham Children's home Athletico CUSD 200 ATI Physical Therapy Deerfield School District 109 Deloitte Auxsable Elementary Denver Public Schools Aviation Port Services Desert Heights Preparatory Academy AXA DeVry Education Group Barton Associates Dialogue Direct Behavioral Perspectives Digital Alliance Beloit College Disney College Program Berkley YMCA District 303 Big Frog District 308 BKD District 45 Blick Art Materials District 68 Bluewolf Dundee-Crown High School

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Eastland Elementary School Komarek Elementary School Echo Global Logistics LaSalle Network Edward Health and Fitness Center Launch Consulting Edwards Hospital Naperville Launch Digital Marketing ELKAY Lauterbach & Amen (LLP) Ella's Coffee Lean Teen Program Enterprise Rent-a-Car Level 10 LLC Equity Builders Lever Interactive Equity LifeStyle Properties Explosive Speed Gym Life Time Fitness Express Employment Professionals Lincoln International Fair Oaks Nursing Home Lincoln School Fastenal Lions Club International Foundation Fauk Valley Media Little City Fehr Solutions Little FIBA/Udeconce Live Nation Entertainment Fifth Third Bank LLT Creative Group First Impression Interactive Lund Zan Dyke Incorporated FIS Magnitech Solutions Fisher Middle School Mann Financial Group Fitness Together Mario Tricocci Fowler School District Marquette Bank Fulbright Marsh Mclennan GAP, INC Martin Advertising / Retail Group Gaskill Creative Maryville Academy Giant Steps McCain Foods USA Gladson LLC McCarty Elementary Glenbard East High School McCrone Associates Goodwill Industries McGladrey LLP Grand Productions Marketing Media Audits International Grange Insurance Medical Staffing Network Grant Thornton Midtronics H&R Block Millennium Pain Center Hard Gainer's Athletics Molex Incorporated Helping Hands Molto Properties Hematogenix Pharma Services MSDSonline Herff Jones Multi Packaging Solutions Hill Middle School Multivision inc Home City Ice Mulyk, Laho & Mack, LLC Hotel Arista My Gym HT Associates Nalco Math and Science Academy Nanophase Technologies Corporation Indiana State University Naperbrook Golf Course Jimmy John's, Headquarters NCTV17 JL Clark Ndevix Joliet Central High School Neil Armstrong Elementary Jonathan Wesley Inc. Network Services Company JPMorgan Chase & Co. Neuqua Valley High School Kane County Sheriff's Office News Enterprise Kellen Company Nolan Entertainment Kellogg Company North Central College Kelso-Burnett North Keystone Aniline Northbrook School District 27 Kirkland & Ellis LLP Academy Klein Hall CPAs Northern Trust Knox County Schools Northwestern Campus Center

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Northwestern Staff Mark Northwestern Mutual Starbucks Coffee Company NTA State Farm Insurance Nutrivo Stats LLC Omally Hanson Communications Stephan Company One Hope United Target Opus Fund Services Teach for America ORA Team Champion Ottawa Savings Bank Team One Volleyball Club Panasonic Factory Solutions TeleSUR Paylocity The Connection Penske Truck Leasing The Exercise Coach Peoria Juvenile Detention Center The German American Chamber of Commerce Pioneer elementary school The Plano East High School The Other Theater Company Plano High School Thomson Reuters Plano Synergy Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center PNC Bank TMC: A division of CH Robinson Presence Pine View Care Center Total Spectrum Applied Behavioral Services Primo Management Group Travelers Insurance Q1 Productions Trust Mart Q2 Software TruVue Q-Bqq U.S. Army Quill.com U.S. Food and Drug Administration Quincy Public School U.S. Navy Raging Waves Waterpark UI Health Randstad Technologies US Uline Ravina Festival Ulta Beauty Rawhide Boys Ranch United Airlines Reflection Software Liability Insurance Group Rex Radiator Welding and Distribution University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Right Fit US Bank SBA Division Robert Half Tech USDTL Rosenthal Collings Group Valeo Academy Rush Copley Healthplex Valspar Rustillion Corporation Video Jet SABIC Polymershapes VividSeats Sauk Elementary School VMW Schaumburg District 54 W.W. Grainger Schaumburg School District 54 Walgreens School District #202 Walt Disney World Sears Holdings Corporation Westmont Yard Seyfarth Shaw LLP Wheaton North High School Shannon Gail Weddings Wilson Creek Elementary School Sheraton Macau Winston Churchill Elementary Sikich World Relief Aurora Skyline Design Xsport Fitness Southwest Orthopedics YMCA: Safe n' Sound SpeedPro Imaging DuPage Ziebell Sportdecals Inc. Zomato St. Mary's School

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List of Internship sites 2015 class engaged with during their college experience

2n1 Media Davis Speed Center 360 Youth Services- Male Transitional Housing Deloitte Program DeVry Education Group 3WON LLC Digity Network Acceleration Sports Performance District 45 Ace Hardware Corporation Downtown Naperville Alliance Addison School District DuPage Children's Museum Addison Trail Middle School DuPage United Advanced Technology Services Edmonds Advocate Healthcare Edward Health and Fitness Center A.J. Antunes and Company -Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation All-Tech Decorating WDBC radio American Theater Company Elmhurst Art Museum ANAD Emerging Asia group Argonne National Laboratory English Language Institute Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Athletico Physical Therapy Entertainment Cruises ATI Physical Therapy Esplanade Fitness Center Aurora University Expansion Marketing B96 Explosive Speed Gym and Edward Fitness Center Batavia Police Department Extreme Speed First Folio Theater Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Fly High Gymnastics Blazing Prairie Stars GameDay USA BlueEarth Deconstruction Gaskill Creative Bluestem Communications Giant Steps Both Ends Burning Ginsberg Jacobs Bulls Sox Academy Glenbard West High School Burhgof Engineering Gracepointe Naperville Cadence Fitness and Health Center Grange Insurance Cadence Physician Group Grant Thornton LLP Cambridg Greene Valley Wastewater Facility Cantigny Golf Course H4 Fitness CBS Radio Hendrickson International Center for Discovery Hölderlin Gymnasium in Germany CEPPA Hub Group Ignite fitness Chicago History Museum Illinois Bar Association Newsletter Chicago Lawyers Union Illinois State Police Indiana Cheer Enterprises Chicago Shakespeare Theater ITW Child Research Triangle IU Health Goshen Hospital CIS Onsite JJR Marketing & First Impression Interactive City of Yorkville College of DuPage Joliet Area Historical Museum Community Christian Church Jonathan Wesley Inc. Community Jones Lang LaSalle Cook County Forest Preserve Jr/Sr scholars Coriant JRS Vending Council for American Islamic Relations Junior/Seniors Scholar Program Cozy Cat Press Davis Community Track and Field Club Kellogg Company

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Kendel County Casa O'Malley and Kwit Keough & Moody Oriental Institute KeylimeTie Palms Health and Fitness Klein Hall CPAs Palos Health and Fitness Center Kroehler YMCA Panasonic Factory Solutions Kutchins, Robbins, & Diamond Paramount Theater LastWordOnSports.com Passage Technology Lauterbasch and Amen Penske Law Offices of Lynn D. Dowd Peter Roskham’s Congressional Office Lee-Chandler Enterprises Phigenics, LLP Lemont Rockers Organization Physical Fusion Training Center Lifestart Wellness Picosa Music Light Opera Works Players Indoor Little Friends Porchlight Music Theatre Lowe and Liebich Psychology Associates Powershares Ludimpex ProActive Kids Lurie Children's Hospital Pulse Financial Services McCain Foods USA Q-bbq McCrone Microscopes and Accessories Quantum Marketing Michael R. Trauscht CPA P.C. R&J Banuelos Trucking Inc. Michigan Environmental Action Council Raging Waves Waterpark Molex Incorporated Reflection Software Monarch Landing Regine Danielle Events & Design Morgali Film Reinhart Financial Group Morton Arboretum Rockford Urban Ministries MPG Fitness Roush Fenway Racing MSDSonline Safe n' Sound YMCA Mueller & Co, CPA SCARCE Environmental Center Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago School District 308 Nanophase Technologies Scott Trade Naper Clinical Sears Holdings Corporation Naperville Central High School Serena High School Naperville Community TV (NCTV17) Seven Bridges Ice Arena Naperville Convention Visitor's Bureau Shedd Aquarium Naperville Police Department Signs by Tomorrow Naperville School District 203 Sikich LLP Navistar Social Needs Ministries New Directions Clinical Therapy Southern Wine and Spirits Nichols Marine Southwest Orthopedics Nielsen Company Spikeball, Inc. Nolan Entertainment Start Fresh Recovery North Central College-Admissions Static Multimedia North Central College-Business Office Stayfit North Central College-Business Operations Suburban Real Estate North Central College-Office of Marketing Sugar Creek Golf Course Communications Summer Language Institute NCC North Central College-Office of Sustainability Sun Chemical North Central College-Wrestling Team Sunrise Senior Living North South Capital Susan Myket and Associates North Suburban Physical Therapy SWC Technology Partners Northrop Grumman Systemtek Northwestern Mutual Tammy Duckworth Campaign Athletic Training Target Oakbrook Bracket and Fitness Club Team Champion Oakbrook Fitness Team One Volleyball Center Olenick & Associates Teen Connection

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The Conservation Foundation USSSA Sports The Exercise Coach Victory Rehabilitation The Field Museum Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Morton Arboretum Walt Disney World The Score Radio Station West Chicago High School Thomson Reuters Wheaton College TITLE Boxing Club Wheaton Park District Top-Pick Athletics Co. Wheaton Property Partners Toys R Us Distribution Center William Blair & Company Treehouse Pediatric Therapy William Fremd High School Triple Threat Mentoring Willowbrook Wildlife Center Trustmark Insurance World Relief Turning Pointe Autism Foundation WSOL, Aurora IL United Church Camps, Inc. Wynn Resort Macau Urban Village Church Chicago YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Graduate and Professional Schools Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (2) (7) Argosy University (5) AT Still University National University of Health Sciences Aurora University (3) North Central College (22) (5) Northern Illinois University (6) California Polytechnic State University Northern Illinois University School of Law California San Diego (2) (2) Chicago Theological Seminary Rosalind Franklin University (4) Colorado School of Mines (5) Colorado State University Southern Illinois University Concordia University (IL) The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Concordia University (WI) The DePaul University (2) University of Illinois at Chicago (3) Dominican University University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dr. William Scholl School of Medicine at Pharmacy Rosalind Franklin University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (3) Elmhurst College University of Leicester Illinois Institute of Technology , Ross , Columbia Illinois State University (2) University of Missouri, St Louis Indiana State University Indiana Tech University of South Carolina- Columbia Maurer School of Law University of Texas, Arlington Indiana University South Bend University of Texas, Austin (2) John Marshall Law School (2) University of York Kent College of Law Wesley Theological Seminary Lewis University

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Graduates were accepted into the following institutions but we were unable to verify school of attendance: Buffalo State Central European University Colorado State University Governor's State University James Madison University Seton Hall University of Delaware University of Georgia : Patterson School of Diplomacy University of New Hampshire

Degree and Program of Study

Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS MS in Occupational Therapy (3) Civil Engineering (2) MS Mechanical Engineering Conservation Biology MS Medical Laboratory Science Counseling and Human Services MS Wildlife Ecology Creative Writing MFA MSN (Nursing) (3) D.P.M. (Podiatric) MSW (Social Work) (3) DDS PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology Doctor of Chiropractic PhD in Mathematics Doctor of Clinical Sociology PhD in Music Theory Doctor of Pharmacy PhD in Physics (2) Doctor of Physical Therapy (3) PhD in Psychology (2) JD (6) PhD in Quantitative Psychology MA in Behavioral Health PsyD in Clinical Psychology (2) MA in Clinical Counseling (2) MA in Clinical Psychology MA in Community Counseling MA in Higher Education and Student Affairs

MA in Studies MA in Leadership (2) MA in Mental Health MA in Political Science MA in Strategic Relations

Master’s in Accounting and Finance Master’s in Clinical Exercise Physiology Master’s in Divinity (4) Master’s in Physician Assistant Studies Master's in Art Conservation

Masters of Accountancy (5) Masters of Applied Exercise Science MBA (18) MLD Higher Ed Leadership Studies (5) MLD Sports

MLIS (Library and Information Science) MM Opera Performance MPA (Public Administration)

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