Claremont McKenna College

Career Report: Class of 2009

Our annual Senior Survey yielded a 89% response rate with 249 of 280 seniors responding. Below is a result of our survey for the Class of 2009.

• Employment - 51%
• Graduate or Professional School - 16%
• Fellowship or National Award - 5%
• Travel - 8%
• Other/Undecided - 20%

Employment
For the class of 2009, 51% of the respondents planned to work immediately after leaving CMC.

Industry

• Accounting - 16%
• Business - 9%
• Consulting - 18%
• Education/Nonprofit - 9%
• Financial Services - 17%
• Government/Law (Military) - 10%
• Investment Banking - 10%
• Science & Technology - 8%
• Other - 1%

Graduate and Professional School
For the class of 2009, 16% of the respondents planned to attend graduate/professional school immediately after leaving CMC.

Top 5 academic fields of interest from highest to lowest were:

• Medicine/Health - 17%
• Science/Math - 17%
• Business/Finance/Accounting - 12%
• Law - 10%
• Humanities - 10%

Fellowship or National Award
For the class of 2009, 5% of the respondents reported receiving a number of prestigious National Award or Fellowship including:

• Capital Fellows - Executive Fellowship Program
• Fulbright - Spain
• Fulbright - Korea (2)
• Fulbright - Nicaragua
• Milosz Fellowship - Poland
• National Institute of Health (5)
• Projects for Peace (1)

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