Class of 2018 Post-Graduate Report-Final

POST-GRADUATION ACTIVITIES REPORT A review of the experiential activities and post-graduate destinations of members of the CLASS OF 2018 Prepared by Center for Careers, Life, and Service | 1103 Park Street | Grinnell, IA 50112 | (641) 269-4940 | career@grinnell.edu GRINNELL COLLEGE CLASS OF 2018 POST-GRADUATION ACTIVITIES REPORT I am pleased to present the Post-Graduation Activities Report for members of the Grinnell College Class of 2018 On the following pages you will find evidence of both the remarkable abilities of Grinnell undergraduates and the value of a Grinnell education in enabling meaningful and purposeful first destinations for our alumni Mark R Peltz, Ph.D Daniel and Patricia Jipp Finkelman Dean Center for Careers, Life, and Service CONTENTS Introduction: Grinnell College Class of 2018 Post-Graduation Survey First Destinations of Grinnell College Class of 2018 Graduates Employment Graduate and Professional School Post-Graduate Service Fellowships and Scholarships Appendix A Experiential Learning Profile B Locations of Graduates in Employment, Graduate School, or Post-Graduate Service C First Destinations and Experiential Activity by Major D Employment, Graduate School, and Post-Graduate Service Details by Major 2 11 12 14 TABLES Representativeness of survey respondents by gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, and firstgeneration status First destinations of the Class of 2018 Sample employers of responding graduates Career fields of responding graduates Extent to which graduates report that their position is related to their career goals Distribution of graduate or professional school degree programs Sample graduate and professional school destinations and programs Sample post-graduate service programs, areas, and locations Post-graduate service areas 10 Sample competitive fellowships and scholarships received A1 Sample domestic internship sites, fields, and locations A2 Sample international internship sites, fields, and locations A3 Sample off-campus research sites, foci, and locations 10 B1 Locations of working or studying graduates 11 C1 First-destination and experiential activity data by major 12 Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 INTRODUCTION: GRINNELL COLLEGE CLASS OF 2018 POST-GRADUATION SURVEY This report compiles data from 312 members of the Class of 2018 (total class size 378), for a knowledge rate—the percent of graduates for whom we have verifiable information concerning postgraduate plans—of 82.5% A first-destination survey was administered to graduates by e-mail in May 2018, with follow-up surveys e-mailed in August 2018 and January 2019 In Spring 2019, Careers, Life, and Service staff completed data collection via e-mail solicitation, web research, and input from faculty, staff, and employers Table illustrates the extent to which the respondents are representative of the entire graduating class in terms of gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, and first-generation status Table Representativeness of survey respondents by gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, and first-generation status Class of 2018 Characteristic Respondents (%) Entire class (%) Gender Male Female 42.0 58.0 43.4 56.6 Race/ethnicity Asian Black or African American Ethnicity and race unknown Hispanic (of any race) Nonresident alien Two or more races White (not Hispanic) 8.0 6.1 0.3 6.7 17.3 5.8 55.8 9.8 5.6 0.3 7.1 17.7 5.3 54.2 Disability status Student self-reporting disability 14.1 13.5 First-generation status First-generation college student 13.5 13.8 The first portion of this report provides an overview of the first destinations of survey respondents, with details about their employment, graduate and professional school, full-time post-graduate service, and competitive post-graduate fellowships The first appendix describes these graduates’ participation in experiential learning activities; the second highlights the geographical distribution of their first destinations The remaining appendices provide details about the post-graduate destinations and experiential profiles of these graduates by academic major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 FIRST DESTINATIONS OF GRINNELL COLLEGE CLASS OF 2018 GRADUATES Table lists the first-destination groups into which the 312 responding members of the Class of 2018 were categorized: (1) employed either full- or part-time; (2) enrolled in graduate or professional school; (3) engaged in full-time post-graduate service; (4) undertaking a fellowship opportunity; (5) pursuing continuing education (i.e., post-baccalaureate credentials at the undergraduate level); and (6) other (i.e., engaged in a transitional activity—such as applying to graduate school, traveling, or seeking employment—not captured by the other categories) Employment was the first destination for approximately 62% of the members of the Class of 2018 Graduate school was the second-mostpopular destination, accounting for about 20% of the class Table First destinations of the Class of 2018 First destinations of 2018 graduates who were firstCategory Percent generation college students were also analyzed separately In this subgroup, the majority of graduates employment 62.2 either were employed (62%) or matriculated in graduate graduate school 19.6 school (17%) The remainder engaged in fellowship post-graduate service 6.4 opportunities (9.5%), post-graduate service (7%), and fellowships 4.5 continuing education (5%) continuing education 3.2 other 4.2 EMPLOYMENT OVERVIEW Of the 62.2% of graduates who immediately entered the workforce after graduation, 90.7% were employed full-time (i.e., working 35 or more hours per week) Table provides a sample listing of some of the organizations (along with their locations) where the graduates accepted positions Members of the Class of 2018 were hired at a wide variety of organizations, including consulting agencies, investment banking firms, museums and galleries, government organizations, technology firms, healthcare facilities, educational and other social service organizations, and scientific research facilities Grinnell College attracts students with diverse interests and proclivities, and the organizations where graduates begin their careers reflect these myriad pursuits Table Sample employers of responding graduates Employer (location) Employer (location) A.R.T./New York (New York, NY) Amazon* (multiple locations) Connections for the Homeless (Evanston, IL) Deloitte* (Arlington, VA) Discovery BioMed (Birmingham, AL) European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium) Future of Humanity Institute (Oxford, UK) Goldman Sachs* (New York, NY) High Court of Gujarat (Ahmedabad, India) Inst of Health Metrics & Evaluation (Seattle, WA) International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC) Iowa Safe Schools (Des Moines, IA) Latin American Women’s Aid (London, UK) Miami Marlins (Miami, FL) Microsoft (Redmond, WA) NAACP (Baltimore, MD) Operation Breakthrough (Kansas City, MO) Small Planet Institute (Cambridge, MA) United Nations Foundation (Washington, DC) World Wildlife Fund (New Delhi, India) * Indicates more than one member of the Class of 2018 accepted employment with this organization Members of the Class of 2018 accepted domestic employment opportunities in 30 states (as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) and international employment opportunities in 12 countries Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 SALARY DATA Given the sensitive nature of sharing personal salary information, gathering data on this variable is quite difficult Graduates who responded as employed full-time were given the opportunity to report their starting salaries Of those employed full-time, 50.3% reported their salaries Note that salary information was not available for graduates whose first-destination information was obtained through web research or other external sources The mean salary of reporting graduates employed full-time was $56,260; the median salary was $46,750 The bottom quartile reported earning an average salary of $27,800 per year; the top quartile, an average of $99,000 per year The top 10% are earning an average annual salary of $121,333 Several factors influence the salary distribution, including career field, geographic location, and relevant experience Because of these factors and the small sample size, readers should exercise caution in drawing conclusions or making assumptions about these data EMPLOYMENT BY CAREER FIELD Members of the Class of 2018 accepted positions in a variety of career fields spanning the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors Table provides an overview of the career fields in which graduates accepted employment Details by major appear in Appendix D Table Career fields of responding graduates Career field Percent Career field Percent research/science computing/technology education finance government/public policy healthcare consulting business admin/management 15.5 15.0 8.8 8.8 8.8 8.3 7.8 6.2 creative/performing arts data science/analytics law/legal services sales/marketing social services communications hospitality agriculture 4.1 3.6 3.6 3.6 2.6 2.1 1.0 0.5 RELATEDNESS TO CAREER GOALS The College is interested in knowing the extent to which these first-destination positions are related to our graduates’ overall career goals, measured by the career-relatedness index For the Class of 2018, 98.6% of respondents indicated that their present employment position (including post-graduate service positions) is related to their career goals to some degree (Table 5), with most (61.3% of total) reporting that their present position is “moderately related” to their career interests Table Extent to which graduates report that their position is related to their career goals Response Percent Completely: this is exactly what I want to be doing Moderately: this is a good stepping stone to my ideal job or career Slightly: I am learning skills or making connections that will help me on my career path Not at all 28.2 61.3 9.2 1.4 Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OVERVIEW Grinnell College has a rich tradition of preparing its students for graduate study in a wide range of disciplines and degree programs Grinnell’s inquiry-based learning, individualized advising, and the rigorous curriculum provide students with an exceptional academic foundation on which to build in graduate or professional school For the Class of 2018, 19.6% enrolled as full-time degree-seeking students in the fall of 2018 Table describes the types of degree programs in which these graduates enrolled Table Distribution of graduate or professional school degree programs Degree category Percent Approximately 52.5% of these respondents are enrolled in doctoral programs, either in academic PhD, science discipline 27.9 fields (PhD), law (JD), or healthcare (MD, DO, MS, science discipline 16.4 and MD/PhD) Members of the Class of 2018 are JD, law 13.1 also pursuing academic master’s degrees in diverse fields, and multiple professional master’s other professional master’s 11.5 degrees (e.g., MENP, MSOT, MEd, and MEng) healthcare master's 8.2 Of the respondents who did not enroll in a healthcare doctorate 6.6 graduate or professional school degree program MA/MPhil, humanities discipline 6.6 immediately following graduation, 52.7% MA/MPhil, social science discipline 4.9 indicated a plan to apply to graduate school PhD, social science discipline 3.3 within the next five years PhD, humanities discipline 1.6 Table Sample graduate and professional school destinations and programs Institution (degree, field of study) Institution (degree, field of study) Carnegie Mellon Univ (MS, computational bio.) Cornell University (MEng, operations research & information engineering) Duke University (PhD, biogeochemistry) Johns Hopkins University (MA, international economics) University of Illinois (MS, library & info science) Northwestern University (PhD, astronomy) Peking University (MA, Chinese studies) Stanford University (PhD, history) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (MD, medicine) University of Iowa (PhD, neuroscience) University of Michigan (JD, law) University of Pennsylvania (MS, education) University of Southern California (PhD, comparative media & culture) University of Wisconsin (PhD, chemistry) Vanderbilt University (PhD, structural biology) Washington University in St Louis (MSOT, occupational therapy) ACCEPTANCE RATES AND FUNDING The survey also asked respondents who had applied to graduate or professional school to indicate their preferences in terms of institutions and programs (first choice, second choice, etc.) and whether they were accepted Overall, 25.3% of the members of the Class of 2018 applied to a graduate or professional school degree program Of those who applied, 89.9% were accepted to one or more programs Of the applicants who were accepted to at least one degree program and reported their application preferences, 87.1% were accepted to either their first- or second-choice institution and program Grinnell College refers to this percentage as the competitive graduate school index Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 Each year, many Grinnellians—both current graduates and recent alumni—seek admission to professional degree programs in law and medicine In the Class of 2018, 90.9% of respondents who applied to law school were admitted to at least one program, and 62.5% of law school applicants who reported preferences were admitted to their first- or second-choice program Of respondents who applied to medical school, either allopathic or osteopathic, 57% were admitted to at least one program (relative to a national average of 45.2%) Of respondents who were admitted to at least one medical school, 75% were admitted to their first- or second-choice program Many aspiring graduate students cite financial support as a criterion in their evaluation of prospective programs For the members of the Class of 2018 who matriculated into graduate or professional school and reported their funding, 78% received assistantships, fellowships, and/or scholarships POST-GRADUATE SERVICE Grinnell College students have a long history of accepting full-time positions with service organizations after graduation Our students’ commitment to serve others, their international focus, and their dedication to applying their liberal arts education to real-world challenges make them stellar volunteers Full-time post-graduate service was the first destination of 6.4% of the responding members of the Class of 2018 The following table provides a sample list of some of the programs, service areas, and destinations where these graduates served Table Sample post-graduate service programs, areas, and locations Post-grad service program Service area(s) Location(s) AmeriCorps legal aid; affordable housing; education; hunger; criminal justice Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Olympia, WA; St Paul, MN; Waterloo, IA Avodah immigration Cambridge, MA; Washington, DC Jesuit Volunteer Corps parenting assistance Spokane, WA Lutheran Volunteer Corps communications; reproductive healthcare Minneapolis, MN; St Paul, MN Peace Corps biodiversity Pedasi, Panama For many Grinnellians, a post-graduate service position connects to civic interests and provides early steps in finding the right blend between civic and career goals The service areas undertaken by respondents from the Class of 2018, listed in Table 9, reflect the career fields in which their classmates report full-time employment and contribute strongly to the 98.6% career-relatedness index reported above Table Post-graduate service areas for responding graduates Service area Percent education government/public policy social services law/legal services healthcare 35.0 25.0 20.0 15.0 5.0 Grinnell College encourages its graduates to view social justice and civic engagement broadly and holistically, as a practice embedded in all areas of life Apart from these full-time service positions, 60% of survey respondents from the Class of 2018 report that they are engaging in these activities in myriad ways: volunteering, giving philanthropically, investing in their local community, participating in political or community advocacy, and more Grinnellians use their time, talents, and financial resources to demonstrate a continued rich civic engagement alongside their primary employment or continued education Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Grinnell College students apply for and receive national merit-based scholarships and fellowships at exceptionally high rates For example, every year since the list was first issued in 2004, Grinnell has been named to the U.S Department of State’s list of colleges and universities that have annually produced the most Fulbright recipients Table 10 provides a sample of the competitive fellowships and scholarships—including domestic and international destinations—of survey respondents from the Class of 2018 Most programs listed below have durations between 10 and 12 months Table 10 Sample competitive fellowships and scholarships received by responding graduates Fellowship or scholarship name Location(s) National Theater Institute Apprenticeship, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Waterford, CT Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (multiple graduates) Croatia; Germany; Russia IN-PREP Postbaccalaureate Program, Northwestern University Partners in Neuroscience Chicago, IL Emerging Professional Residency, Milwaukee Repertory Theater Milwaukee, WI Thomas J Watson Fellowship (two graduates, each working in multiple locations) Chile, Georgia, Hungary, India, Russia, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 APPENDIX A: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROFILE OVERVIEW Experiential learning is a vital component of a well-rounded liberal arts education Internships, research experiences outside the classroom, and cocurricular service activities help students acquire and integrate knowledge as well as sharpen interpersonal skills Of the Class of 2018 survey respondents, 216 (69.2%) completed at least one internship during their undergraduate careers at Grinnell, and 187 (59.9%) participated in at least one on- or off-campus research experience that was not part of a course required for their major Eighty-four graduates (26.9%) reported participating in the Grinnell College Externship program or in other job-shadowing activities, and 178 (57.1%) studied offcampus for at least one semester On campus, 193 graduates (61.9%) held a leadership position during their time at Grinnell, and 242 (77.6%) held at least one campus job Service and civic engagement undertaken by Grinnellians during their time on campus spans a wide array of activities, fostering the notion that these are practices to cultivate in many areas of life Overall, 69.6% of survey respondents report having participated in some type of service or social justice activity as students These include structured service activities such as Service Learning Work Study, AltBreak, cocurricular engagement with community partners, social innovation projects, and volunteering (35.6% of respondents report engaging in volunteer service) Respondents also report philanthropic giving, investment in the local community, voting, political and community advocacy, and using their academic and professional skills to serve their community INTERNSHIPS Internships integrate classroom theory with work experience, helping students enhance classroom learning while exploring and clarifying their career goals Grinnell students are encouraged to participate in internships in order to demonstrate concrete application of their liberal arts education and to become more competitive in a job market where employers value career-related work experience Most students participate in internships—which Grinnell defines as 8–10-week, full-time work experiences that may be paid or unpaid and pursued with or without academic credit—during summers To help defray transportation, housing, food, and other expenses, Grinnell College annually grants approximately $395,000 to these students Tables A1 and A2 provide a sample of some of the internships (including sponsoring organizations, professional fields, and locations) completed by Class of 2018 survey respondents While most students complete only one internship experience (61.1% of the respondents who completed an internship), many pursue multiple internship opportunities Of this subset of the respondent pool, 25% completed two internships; 11.1% completed three; and 2.8% completed four internships during their time at Grinnell College Table A1 Sample domestic internship sites, areas, and locations Internship organization Career area 3311 Productions, Inc creative/performing arts ACLU of Nebraska law/legal services Al Exito education Amazon computing/technology American Museum of Ceramic Art creative/performing arts Blue Canyon Partners consulting Breakthrough Collaborative education Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance creative/performing arts Center for American Indian Research Studies government/public policy …………………………………………………… Location Los Angeles, CA Lincoln, NE Des Moines, IA Boston, MA Pomona, CA Chicago, IL Boston, MA New York, NY Pine Ridge, SD Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 Table A1 cont Sample domestic internship sites, areas, and locations Internship organization Center for Constitutional Rights Christie's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Denver Museum of Nature and Science DuPont Pioneer East Harlem School Facebook Field Museum Gender Justice Goldman Sachs Google Grinnell Area Local Food Alliance Guatemalan Human Rights Commission Harvard Medical School Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences Iowa Department of Revenue Kuakini Medical Center La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Macmillan Publishers Maryland Department of Health Microsoft Minnesota Birth Center MTV National Alliance on Mental Illness Nationwide Insurance Northwest Film Forum NYC Trans Oral History Project Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Prison Public Memory Project Public Radio Exchange Shedd Aquarium Stanford Social Innovation Review Teamster Union 705 Tesla Motors Twitter U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission USDA Agricultural Research Service Career area law/legal services creative/performing arts government/public policy education research/science education computing/technology education law/legal services finance computing/technology social services government/public policy research/science research/science research/science healthcare creative/performing arts law/legal services communications government/public policy computing/technology healthcare communications healthcare computing/technology creative/performing arts social services education research/science computing/technology social services communications education sales/marketing law/legal services computing/technology computing/technology government/public policy Location New York, NY New York, NY Washington, DC Denver, CO Johnston, IA New York, NY Menlo Park, CA Chicago, IL St Paul, MN Salt Lake City, UT Los Angeles, CA Grinnell, IA Washington, DC Cambridge, MA Seattle, WA Des Moines, IA Honolulu, HI New York, NY Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Baltimore, MD Redmond, WA St Paul, MN New York, NY Arlington, VA Columbus, OH Seattle, WA New York, NY Portland, OR Richland, WA Pittsburgh, PA Hudson, NY Madison, WI Chicago, IL Stanford, CA Chicago, IL Fremont, CA San Francisco, CA Chicago, IL research/science Albany, CA Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 14 APPENDIX D: EMPLOYMENT, GRADUATE SCHOOL, AND POSTGRADUATE SERVICE DETAILS BY MAJOR This appendix provides, by major, known details on the 274 responding graduates of the Class of 2018 who immediately entered the workforce after graduation (for either full- or part-time employment), matriculated into graduate or professional school (full-time enrollment only), or joined post-graduate service positions Among the respondents to the survey were 104 Grinnellians who majored in two fields Of that group, 89 are included here, listed under both majors and denoted by asterisks (*) on the left A dagger (†) on the left indicates a first destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) common to two or more graduates within one major ANTHROPOLOGY Employer *Bank of America Merrill Lynch Griggs and Maloney, Inc Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Minnesota Children's Museum Outward Bound Saint Ann's School Graduate school *University of Hawaii *University of Illinois Career area Location computing/technology research/science healthcare New York, NY Murfreesboro, TN Seattle, WA creative/performing arts education education Rochester, MN Camden, ME New York, NY Program & degree Location American studies, MA library and information science, MS Honolulu, HI Champaign, IL Career area Location education creative/performing arts finance Silver Spring, MD New York, NY New York, NY Program & degree Location Asian religions, MA New Haven, CT ART HISTORY Employer CREATE Arts Center Gagosian *Hanover Street Capital Graduate school *Yale University *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 15 BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Employer family farm *Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Micro-Scientific, LLC *Rush University Medical Center Scribe America *Steps Therapy Inc Superior Ambulance Teach for America Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals †University of Iowa *University of Minnesota University of Texas Washington University School of Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine *Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Graduate school Cedar Crest College *Northwestern University Pacific Northwest University Princeton University Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences *University of Nebraska *Yale University Post-graduate service organization *National Service Scheme Career area Location agriculture data science/analytics research/science research/science healthcare healthcare healthcare healthcare education research/science research/science healthcare research/science healthcare research/science research/science Atlantic, IA Seattle, WA New York, NY Gurnee, IL Chicago, IL Colorado Springs, CO San Francisco, CA Vernon Hills, IL Chicago, IL Philadelphia, PA Iowa City, IA Minneapolis, MN Dallas, TX St Louis, MO New York, NY Boston, MA Program & degree Location forensic science, MS biological sciences, PhD medicine, DO computer science, PhD medicine, MD Allentown, PA Evanston, IL Yakima, WA Princeton, NJ Bethesda, MD medicine, MD chemistry, PhD Omaha, NE New Haven, CT Service area Location government/public policy Accra, Ghana *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 16 BIOLOGY Employer Archbold Biological Station Discovery BioMed Germantown Physical Therapy Iowa State University Veterinary Medicine *Land O' Lakes, Inc *Muncie Downtown Development Project Next College Student Athlete Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Operation Breakthrough *Oregon Health and Science University Phi3 Comics Tropical Warming Experiment University of California †*University of Iowa Vanguard *WuXi AppTec Graduate school Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University *Loyola University University of Iowa University of Michigan Vanderbilt University Post-graduate service organization *NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota/Lutheran Volunteer Corps Pedasi Turtles/Peace Corps Career area Location research/science research/science healthcare research/science research/science government/public policy business admin/management research/science Venus, FL Birmingham, AL Germantown, MD Ames, IA Ames, IA Muncie, IN Chicago, IL Chicago, IL social services research/science creative/performing arts research/science healthcare research/science finance research/science Kansas City, MO Portland, OR El Paso, TX Luquilo, PR San Francisco, CA Iowa City, IA Scottsdale, AZ St Paul, MN Program & degree Location computational biology, MS microbiology, PhD medical sciences, MA neuroscience, PhD pathology, PhD structural biology, PhD Pittsburgh, PA Ithaca, NY Chicago, IL Iowa City, IA Ann Arbor, MI Nashville, TN Service area Location healthcare St Paul, MN government/public policy Pedasi, Panama *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 17 CHEMISTRY Employer Career area Location research/science hospitality research/science healthcare education Maplewood, MN Madison, WI Lake Charles, LA Rockford, IL Stanford, CA Program & degree Location chemistry, PhD biogeochemistry, PhD biomedical sciences, MD/PhD materials science & engineering, PhD chemistry, PhD chemistry, MS geological engineering, PhD chemistry, PhD New York, NY Durham, NC Durham, NC Evanston, IL Career area Location education Nanjing, China healthcare Iowa City, IA Service area Location education Chicago, IL Career area Location computing/technology hospitality Sunnyvale, CA Madison, WI Post-graduate service organization Service area Location AmeriCorps education Grinnell, IA *3M *Eurest Sasol ScribeAmerica Stanford University Graduate school Columbia University *Duke University Duke University *Northwestern University Northwestern University University of Oregon University of Utah *University of Wisconsin Evanston, IL Eugene, OR Salt Lake City, UT Madison, WI CHINESE Employer *Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange *University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Post-graduate service organization *College Possible/AmeriCorps CLASSICS Employer *Amazon *Eurest *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 18 COMPUTER SCIENCE Employer *Adage Technologies *AIBrain †**Amazon *Bank of America Merrill Lynch *Bank of New York Mellon Ciena *Deepmind Detroit Historical Society *Deutsche Bank eJournalPress Facebook *FedEx GDIT †*Goldman Sachs *Google *Intuit *Logic Information Systems Performant Software Solutions Plenty Unlimited Red Hat Source Allies Texas Mutual Insurance Company *Twitter *United Technologies Research Center *Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Graduate school *New York University University of California *University of Iowa *University of Iowa *University of Massachusetts Career area Location computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology data science/analytics computing/technology data science/analytics computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology research/science Chicago, IL Seoul, Rep of Korea Denver, CO; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA New York, NY Jersey City, NJ San Francisco, CA London, UK Detroit, MI New York, NY Rockville, MD Menlo Park, CA Brookfield, WI O'Fallon, IL New York, NY; Salt Lake City, UT Mountain View, CA Mountain View, CA Minneapolis, MN Charlottesville, VA San Francisco, CA Washington, DC Urbandale, IA Austin, TX San Francisco, CA Cork, Ireland Cambridge, MA Program & degree Location data science, MS industrial engineering & operation research, MEng informatics, PhD computer science, MS computer science, PhD New York, NY Berkeley, CA computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology government/public policy finance computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology computing/technology Iowa City, IA Iowa City, IA Amherst, MA *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 19 ECONOMICS Employer Career area Location business admin/management computing/technology consulting consulting finance consulting business admin/management finance computing/technology finance finance research/science finance finance finance finance finance education New York, NY Chicago, IL Washington, DC Portland, ME Sao Paulo, Brazil Northfield, MN New York, NY New York, NY Verona, WI Chicago, IL New York, NY Oxford, UK New York, NY New York, NY Shenzhen, China Tulsa, OK Washington, DC Nanjing, China business admin/management finance consulting consulting government/public policy business admin/management consulting computing/technology business admin/management finance consulting business admin/management consulting education research/science finance consulting research/science sales/marketing Minneapolis, MN Mumbai, India Washington, DC New York, NY Brussels, Belgium Aurora, OH Long Beach, CA Denver, CO Baltimore, MD Chicago, IL New York, NY Iowa City, IA Jenkintown, PA Hartford, CT College Station, TX New York, NY New Delhi, India New Delhi, India Davenport, IA Program & degree Location education, MEd statistics, MS law, JD Baltimore, MD Dekalb, IL Minneapolis, MN Post-graduate service organization Service area Location Avodah social services Washington, DC Accenture Adage Technologies Analysis Group, Inc The Beacon Group BTG Pactual Carleton College Datatonics LLC Deutsche Bank Epic Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Federal Reserve Bank of New York Future of Humanity Institute Goldman Sachs Hanover Street Capital HSBC China International Insurance Brokers, Ltd International Monetary Fund Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange John Ryan Performance, Inc KPMG India The Lewin Group *Lieberman Research Worldwide *Martens Centre for European Studies *McMaster-Carr Micronomics Moogsoft Morgan Stanley †**Morningstar NERA Economic Consulting Northwestern Mutual Sightlines Teach For America1 *Texas A&M Economics Department *TIAA Unilever *World Wildlife Fund *Zenith Specialized Marketing Graduate school Johns Hopkins University1 Northern Illinois University *University of Minnesota Graduate simultaneously employed and enrolled in graduate program *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 20 ENGLISH Employer Climb Theatre Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program *Protein Uptown Stories Viacom freelance Graduate school *Central European University Union Theological Seminary *Yale University Post-graduate service organization Career area Location sales/marketing education communications communications communications creative/performing arts Inver Grove Hts, MN Nobeoka, Japan New York, NY New York, NY New York, NY Washington, DC Program & degree Location political philosophy, MA theology, MDiv chemistry, PhD Budapest, Hungary New York, NY New Haven, CT Service area Location Cow Tipping Press/Lutheran Volunteer Corps social services Minneapolis, MN FRENCH Employer Career area Location law/legal services business admin/management consulting consulting hospitality research/science research/science research/science Accra, Ghana Chicago, IL Falls Church, VA New York, NY Paris, France College Station, TX Iowa City, IA Minneapolis, MN Program & degree Location international economics, MA biological sciences, PhD Baltimore, MD Evanston, IL Post-graduate service organization Service area Location College Possible/AmeriCorps education Chicago, IL Apex Law Consult *Jewish United Fund *The Lewin Group *Lieberman Research Worldwide *private family *Texas A&M Economics Department *University of Iowa *University of Minnesota Graduate school *Johns Hopkins University *Northwestern University *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 21 GENDER, WOMEN’S & SEXUALITY STUDIES Employer Career area Location Iowa Safe Schools Med School Tutors Murmrr Theater education education creative/performing arts Des Moines, IA New York, NY New York, NY Graduate school Program & degree Location occupational therapy, MSOT informatics, PhD St Louis, MO Iowa City, IA Service area Location law/legal services healthcare Chicago, IL St Paul, MN Career area Location business admin/management Aurora, OH Graduate school Program & degree Location National University of Ireland exercise physiology, MSc Galway, Ireland Career area Location business admin/management Minneapolis, MN *Washington University in St Louis *University of Iowa Post-graduate service organization Avodah * NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota/Lutheran Volunteer Corps GENERAL SCIENCE Employer *McMaster-Carr GERMAN Employer *HumanOnaStick *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 22 HISTORY Employer Career area Location law/legal services research/science data science/analytics business admin/management government/public policy hospitality data science/analytics communications Washington, DC Kirkland, WA Seattle, WA Chicago, IL Des Moines, IA Paris, France Oakland, CA Madison, WI Program & degree Location history, PhD early modern history, MPhil law, JD Stanford, CA Cambridge, UK Iowa City, IA Service area Location government/public policy Accra, Ghana Employer Career area Location European Parliament Mathematica Policy Research government/public policy data science/analytics Brussels, Belgium Chicago, IL Graduate school Program & degree Location Peking University University of Cambridge Chinese studies, MA African studies, MPhil Beijing, China Cambridge, UK Benach Collopy LLP *Connections Behavior *Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation *Jewish United Fund NextGen America *private family Reserve The Progressive - Public School Shakedown Graduate school Stanford University University of Cambridge *University of Iowa Post-graduate service organization *National Service Scheme INDEPENDENT *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 23 MATHEMATICS Employer Career area Location computing/technology consulting consulting computing/technology computing/technology sales/marketing business admin/management finance data science/analytics data science/analytics computing/technology research/science education computing/technology computing/technology Seattle, WA Washington, DC Arlington, VA New York, NY Mountain View, CA; Los Angeles, CA Grinnell, IA Minneapolis, MN New York, NY Minneapolis, MN Redmond, WA San Francisco, CA Oakland, CA Hartford, CT San Francisco, CA Cork, Ireland Graduate school Program & degree Location Columbia University Cornell University statistics, MA operations research & information engineering, MEng education, MEd data science, MS materials science, MS statistics, MS computer science, MS computer science, PhD New York, NY Ithaca, NY Post-graduate service organization Service area Location Alexian Brothers Housing and Health Alliance/AmeriCorps government/public policy Chicago, IL *Amazon *Analysis Group, Inc *Deloitte *Goldman Sachs †*Google Grinnell College Golf Course *HumanOnaStick Jane Street Capital *Logic Information Systems *Microsoft *NVIDIA Social Policy Research Associates *Teach For America2 *Twitter *United Technologies Research Center *Johns Hopkins University2 *New York University Stanford University University of Illinois *University of Iowa *University of Massachusetts Baltimore, MD New York, NY Stanford, CA Champaign, IL Iowa City, IA Amherst, MA Graduate simultaneously employed and enrolled in graduate program MUSIC Employer *Epic Graduate school *Elmhurst College *University of Wisconsin Career area Location computing/technology Verona, WI Program & degree Location nursing practice, MENP chemistry, PhD Elmhurst, IL Madison, WI *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 24 PHILOSOPHY Employer Career area Location data science/analytics computing/technology research/science Dublin, Ireland London, UK Ames, IA Program & degree Location political philosophy, MA law, JD Budapest, Hungary Minneapolis, MN Service area Location law/legal services Missoula, MT Career area Location consulting finance education computing/technology healthcare government/public policy research/science social services Arlington, VA New York, NY Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Chicago, IL Chicago, IL St Paul, MN Ely, MN Program & degree Location astronomy, PhD materials science & engineering, PhD civil engineering, PhD civil engineering, MS law, JD electrical engineering, MS Evanston, IL Evanston, IL Post-graduate service organization Service area Location Northeast Iowa Food Bank/AmeriCorps social services Waterloo, IA *AppLovin *Deepmind *Land O' Lakes, Inc Graduate school *Central European University University of Minnesota Post-graduate service organization *Justice for Montanans/AmeriCorps PHYSICS Employer *Deloitte *Federal Reserve Bank of New York Noble Network of Charter Schools *NVIDIA *Rush University Medical Center Sean Casten for Congress Campaign *WuXi AppTec YMCA Camp Widjiwagan Graduate school Northwestern University *Northwestern University Oregon State University University of Hawaii *University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin Corvallis, OR Honolulu, HI Minneapolis, MN Madison, WI *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 25 POLITICAL SCIENCE Employer *3M *AIBrain The Cadmus Group *Carleton College City of Grinnell The Concord Group Deloitte Frosty Tech *Future of Humanity Institute High Court of Gujarat *International Monetary Fund *The Lewin Group *Martens Centre for European Studies Miami Marlins NAACP Nativity Preparatory School *Nixon Peabody LLP NYC Mayor's Office PAAIA Property and Casualty Insurers Association ScribeAmerica Small Planet Institute Stanford Social Innovation Review *TIAA United Nations Foundation Washington County Library *World Bank Group *World Wildlife Fund Graduate school *Arizona State University *Duke University *Johns Hopkins University Ohio State University *University of Hawaii *University of Illinois *University of Iowa *University of Texas Post-graduate service organization Jesuit Volunteer Corps *Justice for Montanans/AmeriCorps Career area Location research/science computing/technology consulting consulting government/public policy consulting consulting sales/marketing research/science law/legal services finance consulting government/public policy business admin/management law/legal services education law/legal services government/public policy government/public policy government/public policy healthcare government/public policy sales/marketing finance government/public policy government/public policy government/public policy research/science Maplewood, MN Seoul, Rep of Korea Washington, DC Northfield, MN Grinnell, IA San Francisco, CA Arlington, VA Overland Park, KS Oxford, UK Ahmedabad, India Washington, DC Falls Church, VA Brussels, Belgium Miami, FL Baltimore, MD New Bedford, MA Chicago, IL New York, NY Washington, DC Washington, DC Seattle, WA Cambridge, MA Stanford, CA New York, NY Washington, DC Forest Lake, MN Washington, DC New Delhi, India Program & degree Location law, JD biogeochemistry, PhD international economics, MA law, JD American studies, MA library and information science, MS law, JD political science, PhD Phoenix, AZ Durham, NC Baltimore, MD Columbus, OH Honolulu, HI Champaign, IL Service area Location social services law/legal services Spokane, WA Missoula, MT Iowa City, IA Austin, TX *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 26 PSYCHOLOGY Employer Career area Location healthcare finance sales/marketing government/public policy research/science social services business admin/management computing/technology social services education healthcare sales/marketing data science/analytics finance communications education healthcare healthcare research/science research/science healthcare research/science social services government/public policy Woburn, MA Tokyo, Japan New York, NY Des Moines, IA Kirkland, WA Evanston, IL Framingham, MA Brookfield, WI London, UK Rogers, MN Chicago, IL New York, NY Redmond, WA Des Moines, IA New York, NY Redmond, WA Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA St Louis, MO Iowa City, IA Iowa City, IA Minneapolis, MN Beaverton, OR Washington, DC Program & degree Location law, JD law, JD psychology, MA occupational therapy, MSOT counseling psychology, MA Phoenix, AZ Chicago, IL Cedar Falls, IA St Louis, MO Vienna, Austria Post-graduate service organization Service area Location Breakthrough Collaborative City Year education education Cambridge, MA Jacksonville, FL Employer Career area Location Schiff Hardin LLP law/legal services Chicago, IL Graduate school Program & degree Location law, JD Asian religions, MA Ann Arbor, MI New Haven, CT ABACS LLC BlackRock Catch New York Cindy Axne for Congress *Connections Behavior Connections for the Homeless Definitive Healthcare *FedEx *Latin American Women's Aid Learning Rx MedEx Ambulance MediaMath *Microsoft Morgan Stanley *Protein Redmond Montessori Children's House Seattle Children's *Steps Therapy Inc The Deer Creek Foundation University of Iowa *University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics *University of Minnesota *Westside Behavior Therapy *World Bank Group Graduate school *Arizona State University *Chicago-Kent College of Law University of Northern Iowa *Washington University in St Louis Webster Vienna Private University RELIGIOUS STUDIES *University of Michigan *Yale University *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 27 RUSSIAN Employer *AppLovin *Muncie Downtown Development Project *Westside Behavior Therapy Career area Location data science/analytics government/public policy social services Dublin, Ireland Muncie, IN Beaverton, OR Career area Location government/public policy consulting creative/performing arts social services law/legal services education government/public policy healthcare education Washington, DC Seattle, WA Mexico City, Mexico London, UK Denver, CO Matteson, IL Washington, DC Minneapolis, MN Seattle, WA Program & degree Location law, JD education, MEd law, JD law, JD education, MS comparative media & culture, PhD Chicago, IL Baltimore, MD Ann Arbor, MI Minneapolis, MN Philadelphia, PA Los Angeles, CA Service area Location education education education law/legal services government/public policy Dallas, TX Chicago, IL St Paul, MN Carbondale, IL St Paul, MN SOCIOLOGY Employer *Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute ECONorthwest GE Gallery *Latin American Women's Aid Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC School District 159 Smithsonian Insititute *University of Minnesota University Prep Graduate school *Chicago-Kent College of Law Johns Hopkins University3 *University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania *University of Southern California Post-graduate service organization Urban Teachers/AmeriCorps3 *College Possible/AmeriCorps College Possible/AmeriCorps Land of Lincoln Legal Aid/AmeriCorps Ramsey County Community Corrections/ AmeriCorps Graduate simultaneously employed and enrolled in graduate program *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major Grinnell College Post-Graduation Activities Report | Class of 2018 28 SPANISH Employer Career area Location healthcare government/public policy education finance law/legal services sales/marketing Washington, DC Washington, DC Rockville, MD Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Davenport, IA Program & degree Location medical sciences, MA comparative media & culture, PhD political science, PhD Chicago, IL Los Angeles, CA Career area Location computing/technology research/science Jersey City, NJ Portland, OR Post-graduate service organization Service area Location Thurston County Food Bank/AmeriCorps social services Olympia, WA Career area Location creative/performing arts computing/technology creative/performing arts New York, NY Mountain View, CA Washington, DC Children's National Health Systems *Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Montgomery College †**Morningstar *Nixon Peabody LLP *Zenith Specialized Marketing Graduate school *Loyola University *University of Southern California *University of Texas Austin, TX STUDIO ART Employer *Bank of New York Mellon *Oregon Health and Science University THEATRE & DANCE Employer A.R.T./New York *Intuit The Field School *First destination of a double-major graduate; listed under both majors †First destination (employer, degree program, or service organization) of two or more graduates within major ... Activities Report | Class of 2018 INTRODUCTION: GRINNELL COLLEGE CLASS OF 2018 POST-GRADUATION SURVEY This report compiles data from 312 members of the Class of 2018 (total class size 378), for... approximately 62% of the members of the Class of 2018 Graduate school was the second-mostpopular destination, accounting for about 20% of the class Table First destinations of the Class of 2018 First... Introduction: Grinnell College Class of 2018 Post-Graduation Survey First Destinations of Grinnell College Class of 2018 Graduates Employment Graduate and Professional School Post-Graduate Service Fellowships