Career Center > Career & Graduate School Statistics

Approximately thirty percent of the Class of 2008 are pursuing graduate studies for the coming year and have been accepted at a number of exceptional grad schools around the country, including Columbia University, New York University, Cornell University, UCLA’s Annenberg School of Communication, Vanderbilt Divinity School, the University of Virginia, the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Our Career Center estimates that we can expect to see as much as fifty percent of this year’s graduating class in graduate school over the next three to five years.

98 percent of Hollins graduates say Hollins prepared them well for the life they are living.

Hollins graduates have a competitive edge in the job market and in graduate/professional school admission. A year after graduation, 98 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 74%. On average, 72% of Hollins graduates are employed and 26% attend graduate school their first year out. The highest percentage attending graduate school is 33%; the lowest, 22%. The figures for the class surveys follow:

• AXA Advisors
• Art Museum of Virginia
• Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
• Disney Wilderness Preserve
• Dolphin Quest
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• LexisNexus Publishing Company
• Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
• Make-a-Wish Foundation
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Neiman Marcus
• New York Stock Exchange
• Peace Corps
• The Roanoke Times Newspaper
• Roanoke Ballet Theatre
• St. Martin's Press
• Sun Financial Group
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation
• Office of the Curator of the Supreme Court of the United States
• The Homestead Resort
• The New Yorker Magazine
• U.S. Department of Justice
• Valley Bank
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Virginia Museum of Transportation
  
  

Sarah Ashworth Dana '74 Founder and president of NET 30 a Richmond-based bill-paying and bookkeeping service "The liberal arts gave me a broader perspective to try new things."

Selected graduate school placements 2002-2006:

• Boston University, journalism/film production/creative writing
• Emory University, physics
• Flinders University, Australia, women's studies
• Medical College of Virginia, medicine
• Monterey Institute for International Studies, international policy studies
• NOVA Southeastern University, marine biology
• Northwestern University, art history
• Parsons School of Design, fashion marketing
• Purdue University, chemistry
• Queens College, film and photography
• Seton Hall University, law
• Syracuse University, public relations
• Texas State University, organization communication
• University of London at Egham, comparative literature and writing
• University of Richmond, law
• University of Southern California, film production
• University of Tennessee, law
• University of Virginia, language
• University of York-UK, history
• Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, medicine
• Virginia Tech, veterinary medicine
• Washington & Lee University, law

In the most recent survey, 58 percent of those who reported earn between $25,000 and $50,000 one year after graduating from Hollins.

Dana Gibson '87 Ceramic artist "I received so much one-on-one attention from my Hollins professors, which made me more confident in my abilities as an artist."

Other statistics:

• 60 to 70 employers recruit annually at the Challenge Job Fair.
• 458 employers contacted the Career Center last year regarding job opportunities.
• 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.
• 3,500 Hollins alumnae participate in the Career Advising Network (CAN), helping students and other alumnae with their job searches.
• On average, 85% of Hollins recent graduates had at least one internship experience during their four years.

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CONTACT
Tina Rolen
Director of the Career Center
(540) 362-6364
cdc@hollins.edu

Hollins graduates find that one of their most important assets in the vast and varied world of work is a liberal arts degree.

Dinitia Hartman '76
channel manager for the Americas, Sun Microsystems
"Corporations are looking for people with the kind of liberal arts education Hollins provides. They want problem solvers who know how to think broadly, creatively, and independently -- and still function as part of a team."

Holly Leech '99
Deputy Director, Corporate Development,U.S. Chamber of Commerce
According to the Roanoke Times, "Unlike many of her peers, Hollins University grad is prepared [due to good parental guidance and a Hollins personal finance course] to manage her money."

Jane Leslie Dees Morse '91
Publisher and Editor of Off to College
She credits her education in sociology and film, plus internships, in helping her achieve publishing success.

Jenny Van Leeuwen '97 Gilman Hill Asset Management, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager
Jenny credits her economics professors and three internships with helping land her first job at Goldman Sachs. Following Goldman, Jenny was a Vice President at Neuberger Berman, a Lehman Brothers Company, and received her M.B.A. from Columbia University.