Career and graduate school statistics

Twenty-six percent of the Class of 2010 are pursuing graduate studies for the coming year and have been accepted at a number of exceptional grad schools around the country, including University of Virginia (law), University of Missouri (educational leadership and analysis), Parsons, the New School for Design (art history), Virginia Tech (psychology), Claremont University (economics), Virginia Commonwealth University (physical therapy), and Hampton University (pharmacy).

Hollins graduates have a competitive edge in the job market and in graduate/professional school admission. A year after graduation, 97 percent of the graduates hold jobs or attend graduate school. This has been the statistical case for the past five years.

Within a year of graduation, the Career Center conducts an annual class survey. For the past five years, the response rate has averaged 71%. On average, 69% of Hollins graduates are employed and 28% attend graduate school their first year out. The figures for the class surveys follow:

 

Year	Employed	Post Graduate Work	Seeking Employment /Unemployed
2010	71%	26%	3%
2009	64%	35%	1%
2008	66%	33%	1%
2007	72%	23%	1%
2006	68%	29%	3%

Selected employers who hired graduates in the classes of 2006-2010

Alcoa AmeriCorps Apple, Inc. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Cherish Our Children International Christ Tabernacle Citizen Pictures/Food Network, Giada at Home F.B.I. Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies Government of France Greensboro Children’s Museum L’Occtaine Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia Lexmark Metropolitan Museum of Art NCAA (Indianapolis) New York State Board of Law Examiners New York Stock Exchange Northern Virginia Veterinary Associates

Novo Nordisk Novozymes Biologicals Peace Corps Roanoke Ballet Theatre St. Martin's Press Seattle Repertory Theatre Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation Office of the Curator of the Supreme Court of the United States The New Yorker Magazine UBS Financial Services, Inc. United BioSource Corporation U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Valley Bank Virginia Tech Individual Difference Development Lab Walt Disney Imagineering World Harvest Missions

Selected graduate school placements 2006-2010

American University Broadcast Journalism College of William & Mary, Experimental Psychology Columbia University Medical College of Virginia, medicine New York University, educational theatre / English Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, osteopathic medicine Regent University, international politics Savannah College of Art and Design, animation Sherman College of Chiropractic South Texas School of Law Syracuse University, public relations Texas State University, organization communication University College London, English / Shakespeare University of Alabama, library science University of California at Riverside, ethnomusicology University of Georgia, veterinary medicine

University of London at Egham, comparative literature and writing University of Mary Washington, education University of Massachusetts, creative writing University of Mississippi Medical School, medicine University of New Mexico, biology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ancient art history University of Oregon, history University of Phoenix, elementary education University of Pennsylvania,veterinary medicine University of Southern California, public diplomacy University of Tennessee, law University of Virginia, chemistry; historic preservation Virginia Commonwealth University, pharmacy Virginia Tech, veterinary medicine Washington & Lee University, law Yale Divinity School

In the most recent survey, 65 percent of those who reported earn between $25,000 and $50,000 one year after graduating from Hollins.

Other statistics

• 55 to 65 employers recruit annually at the Challenge Job Fair.
• 150 job listing websites are available on the Career Center site at my.hollins.edu. They are arranged by general search, career field; some are directed to special campus populations.
• 4,901 Hollins alumnae participate in the Career Advising Network (CAN), helping students and other alumnae with their job searches.
• 63% of the Class of 2009 had at least one internship experience during their four years.