CLASS OF 2020 PLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

All Bachelor Degrees Earned by Major 2019/2020 Combined Counts by Major

EE- All, 22 Five (5) double majors are 73% OF THE CLASS OF 2020 INTENDED TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE. counted in CS, 114 • Of domestic students (US citizens or permanent residents), 85% had at least one job each major. ES, 55 offer by graduation.

• The average reported starting salary for domestic students working in the US was

CompE, 23 $86,075 and the median is $80,000. • VUSE students are mobile; 92% accepted a job in a state other than their home state.

CE, 17

ME, 49 BME - All, 53 Destinations of May 2020 Graduates ChE, 41

19% OF THE CLASS OF 2020 PLANNED TO ATTEND GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL. (Admitted), 46, 15% Regarding those headed to graduate school: Graduate School (Not Yet • 94% of students who applied were admitted. Admitted), 3, 1% • Job Offer - 48% expressed clear intention to pursue a . • 76% planned to study or computer science. Other, 26, 8% Domestic, 188, 59% • Average reported annual stipend for graduate study was $32,438, and the median Medical or Dental School was $32,750. (Not Yet Admitted), 1, 0% Regarding those intending to enter medical school (N=12): Medical or Dental School • 92% of applicants were admitted. (Admitted), 11, 4%

Looking - Int'l, 4, 1% Average and Median Salary Offers Accepted Job Offer - Int'l, 7, 2% $120,000 Mean Median Looking - Domestic, 33, 10% $100,000

$80,000 • $60,000 Salaries reported (N= 159) by domestic graduates accepting employment in US. • Error bars indicate standard deviation of accepted salary offers. $40,000 • Salaries varied significantly by geographic region.

$20,000 Data were drawn from the commencement program, VU student records, YES, and most of all from the $0 VUSE “Survey of Future Plans” given in the month prior to commencement to all May 2020 graduates. BME ChE CE CompE CS EE ES ME Total The overall response rate was 97%.

CLASS OF 2020 PLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

May 2020 Graduates

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2, 4% 1, 2% Job Offer - Domestic BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: 9, 18% • Working for Merck (3), Abbott (2), VU, Putnam Associates, Optum, Job Offer - Int'l NIH, Medtronic, MAXIMUS, Huron, Deloitte, Capital One, Boston 18, 36% Scientific. 1, 2% Looking - Domestic • Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at Looking - Int'l or considering offers from these institutions: Baylor, Columbia, Duke, Tech, Northwestern, U of Rochester, UT-Dallas, U of Graduate School (Admitted) Washington, Vanderbilt. • Going to medical or dental school at or considering offers from 9, 18% Graduate School (Not Yet these institutions: Cornell, NYU, Northwestern, Ohio State, Admitted) Vanderbilt. Offers being considered from Loyola University, U of Medical or Dental School Alabama . (Admitted) 1, 2% Other

1, 2% 8, 16% Offer Unk - Domestic

May 2020 Chemical Engineering Graduates

4, 10% Job Offer - Domestic

1, 3% 21, 52% CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Looking - Domestic BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: 3, 8% • Working for AECOM, Anheuser-Busch, BOLD Production Services, Looking - Int'l Capgemini, Capital One, Credera, Emerson Electric, Epic Systems, 1, 2% ExxonMobil, H+M Industrial, Manhattan Associates, McMaster- Carr, Merck, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Optiver US, Pfizer, Ramboll, Graduate School Red Ventures, Silicon Ranch, US Navy. Considering offers from (Admitted) Alcon and Glaxo Smith Kline. • Medical or Dental Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at School (Not Yet UC-Berkeley, U of Chicago, U of Washington. 10, 25% Admitted) Other CLASS OF 2020 PLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

May 2020 Civil Engineering Graduates

3, 17% 11, 65% CIVIL ENGINEERING Job Offer - Domestic BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: • Working for AECOM, Arup Group, Brasfield & Gorrie, Clark Construction, Deloitte, DPR Construction, Pacheco Koch Looking - Domestic 2, 12% Construction, TDOT, Turner Construction, US Government. • Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at Graduate School (Admitted) and Vanderbilt.

Other

1, 6%

May 2020 Computer Engineering Graduates

2, 10%

2, 9% 16, 76% COMPUTER ENGINEERING BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: Job Offer - Domestic • Working for Microsoft (5), Cigna (2), Amazon, Apple, Capital One, 1, 5% Epic Systems, Michelin, RTI with an additional offers under Job Offer - Int'l consideration from Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

Looking - Domestic

Other

CLASS OF 2020 PLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

May 2020 Computer Science Graduates

5, 6% COMPUTER SCIENCE BS Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: 11, 12% 62, 70% • Working for with Microsoft (12), Capital One (11), Google (5), Amazon Job Offer - Domestic (5), Facebook (4), Goldman Sachs (3), US Navy (2), FAST Enterprises (2), Accenture, Alliance Bernstein, Asurion, Atlassian, Bain & Co, CGI, Capital 1, 1% Job Offer - Int'l Markets Trading, Convoy, Deloitte, Dun & Bradstreet, Epic Systems,

Figma, M Science, Mathworks, MAXIMUS, McKinsey & Co, Roblox, 4, 5% Looking - Domestic USMC, Vanguard, West Monroe Partners. • Looking - Int'l Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at 5, 6% Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, MIT, Rice, Stanford, U of Oxford, Vanderbilt Graduate School with offers being considered from U of Miami and William and Mary. (Admitted) Other

May 2020 Graduates

1, 5%

4, 21% 10, 53% ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: Job Offer - Domestic • Working for Booz Allen Hamilton, Burns & McDonald, Capital One, Chevron, General Dynamics, KVH Industries, Merck, Optum, RTI, San Looking - Domestic Antonio ISD. • Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at Georgia Tech, , U of Southern California, U of Looking - Int'l Washington. 1, 5% Graduate School (Admitted) Graduate School (Not Yet Admitted) 3, 16% CLASS OF 2020 PLACEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

May 2020 Engineering Science Graduates ENGINEERING SCIENCE BS Graduates from the Class of 2020 are: 4, 10%

• Working for Capital One (3), Accenture, Aegis Technologies, 24, 58% 2, 5% Job Offer - Domestic , Better Mortgage, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco Systems, Crowe Horwath, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Fidelity Information Services, Harris Williams, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Looking - Domestic IBM, Microsoft, Northrup Grumman, Red Ventures, US Navy, 7, 17% Wells Fargo with additional offers under consideration from Graduate School Capgemini and FIS. (Admitted) • Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at SMU, UC-Berkeley, U of Chicago, U of Notre Dame, UT-Austin, Medical or Dental School U of Virginia with offers of admission under consideration by (Admitted)

Cornell, Boston U, U of Illinois. Other • Considering medical school offers from these institutions: 4, 10% Columbia and U of Miami.

May 2020 Mechanical Engineering Graduates

5, 11% 27, 57% 1, 2% MECHANICAL ENGINEERING BE Graduates from the Class of 2020 are:

12, 26% Job Offer - Domestic • Working for Deloitte (4), Procter & Gamble (2), General Electric (2), Boeing (2), ARCO/Murray, Capgemini, Cardinal Engineering, Looking - Domestic Deus Modern, Emerson Electric, Epic Systems, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Masimo Corp., Olsson, Sitelogiq, Smith Seckman Reid, Textron Systems, Walt Disney. Graduate School (Admitted) • Going to graduate or professional school (not medical or dental) at or considering offers from these institutions: CalArts, Carnegie Graduate School (Not Yet Mellon, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, MIT, UC-Berkeley, U of Admitted) Michigan, U of Penn, UT-Austin, Wash U-St Louis, Stanford. Other

2, 4%