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Post-Graduate Survey Class of 2009 Highlights
About the Survey The Class of 2009 Post-Graduate Survey of undergraduates in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Career Center, was completed in January 2010. Graduates were contacted via email, beginning in May 2009, to complete an online survey.
Throughout the summer, the Career Center repeatedly invited recent graduates to take the online survey. An oyed Full Time 41% additional attempt to collect data was made in collaboration with the Office of Annual Giving. The Phonathon led at a Graduate or Professional School 37% cipating in a contacted Volunteer2009 or Service 11% graduatesActivity, via phoneTraveling, to collect information from those who had not yet taken the survey online. ely Job Searching 7% Altogether, 601 members of the undergraduate Class of 2009 (55% of the class) provided information. ying to Graduate or Professional School 3% If you would like more information please contact the Career Center at 410-516-8056 or
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Where is the Class of 2009 now? Members of the Class of 2009 were asked to select their primary activity six months after graduation.
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Class of 2009 Employment
Maryland New york Business Services, Banking, Consulting & Financial Services 17% Washington D.C. Engineering & Information Technology 12% Virginia Two hundred forty-nine (249) of all survey respondents reported that their primary activity would be full-time Science & Research 25% Massachusetts Non-Profits & Government 14% employment. Of those students, below are the percentages that represent the industries in which they are currently California Biotech, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare 6% Pennsylvania Education & Training 12% employed. Hopkins continues to be a university International where its graduates enter a diverse set of opportunities. Communications, Media, Johns Art & Design 4% Other Law 4% U.S. Other
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Salary Information Starting salary information was provided by 130 of the 249 survey respondents who reported that full-time employment would be their primary activity after graduation.
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Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
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$38,956
Whiting School of Engineering
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$50,639
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$42,191
Selected Organizations Employing the Class of 2009 Accenture American Enterprise Institute AmeriCorps VISTA: NYC Civic Corps Baltimore Museum of Art Boston Red Sox Chemonics International Colgate-Palmolive Company Covington & Burling LLP DC Energy Deloitte
Edelman F.B.I. Genentech Howard Hughes Medical Institute JPMorgan Chase Lockheed Martin Corporation MillionTreesNYC Morgan Stanley National Institutes of Health Northrop Grumman Corporation
RF Binder Susquehanna International Group, LLC Synthes T Rowe Price Teach For America The Urban Institute The Washington Institute for Near East Policy U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of State U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Career Related Experiences
Employed Full Time Enrolled at a Graduate or Professional School Participating in a Volunteer or Service Activity, Traveling, Actively Job Searching Applying to Graduate or Professional School
10.8% 16.5% 19.9% 18.7% 29.5%
Information on undergraduate students who participated in career related experiences (e.g. internships, research, shadowing) was gathered only from respondents to the web-based phase of the survey. Overall Career Related Experiences Ninety-five percent (95%) of respondents reported having one or more career related experiences. Of students reporting career related experiences, the average number reported per student is 3.9.
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Internships Seventy-four percent (74%) of respondents reported having one or more internship experiences. Of students reporting internship experiences, the average number reported per student is 2.2. Research Seventy-two percent (72%) of respondents reported having one or more research experiences. Of students reporting research experiences, the average number reported per student is 2.0. Shadowing Thirty-six percent (36%) of respondents reported having one or more shadowing experiences. Of students reporting shadowing experiences, the average number reported per student is 1.8.
edicine 26% ocial Sciences, Government & Policy 8% ublic Health / Other Health Professions 9% ngineering and Computer Science 27% Master’s 6% w Medical 6% ducation / Humanities PhD reported hysical Sciences Thirty-seven percent (37%) of survey respondents 2% a primary activity of graduate or professional Law ological Sciences 11% Other ther 4% school, and another three percent (3%) of respondents reported they were actively applying.
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Most Frequently Reported Graduate and Professional Schools Johns Hopkins University Stanford University Columbia University University of Pennsylvania Harvard University University of Maryland London School of Economics University of California, San Diego University of Michigan Baylor College of Medicine Georgetown University Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Boston Univeristy Brown University
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Case Western Reserve University Jefferson Medical College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michigan State University Northeastern University Pennsylvania State University Rush Medical College University of California, Los Angeles University of Baltimore University of Cincinnati University of Delaware University of Illinois University of Miami University of Oxford University of Pittsburgh Yale University
