Job Search & Graduate School

Job Search and Graduate School

The Center's services include on and off campus recruiting, resume collections, and networking events that target top liberal arts and technical employers. Additionally, we provide Graduate and Professional School advising, publications and events such as Law School Night, to bring graduate program representatives to our students.  We are particularly proud of two innovative programs: caree and internship collections and resume collections.

Career and internship Connections: Rochester is the founder and leader of the CIC events, off-campus recruiting consortia whose participating schools include: Cornell, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Union, and Vassar. Each year, top employers in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Washington DC, within fields including Banking, Consulting, Communications, and Biotechnology, Education, Law, and Medicine pre-screen resumes and interview students from fourteen elite colleges and universities. Rochester students secured an average of 27% of all interview appointments, the highest among any participating school. 

Resume Collections: Over the last five years, the UR Resume Collections have distributed thousands of resumes to highly selective and prominent firms in New York, Boston, Chicago, and DC.  These firms match stated interests of students and they consider candidates for internship as well as post-baccalaureate options.

Click here for a list of firms that recruited UR students at both on and off-campus events.

What are the top fields for graduate study?

Because the University of Rochester enrolls students with diverse interests and talents, and the innovative Rochester Curriculum encourages students to gain curiosity driven competencies within major, minor and cluster fields of study, Seniors and alumni(ae) apply to and enroll in various post-baccalaureate programs.

Law School

• For graduating seniors, our Fall 2006 admission rate is 79% of applicants, well above the 71% national average.
• 62% of Rochester applicants (seniors and alumni) are accepted at law schools ranked in the top 100.
• In the last two years, Rochester applicants have been admitted to 24 of the top 25 schools including: Harvard, New York University, Columbia, University of Michigan, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Boston University, George Washington University, and Notre Dame.

Medical School

• For all Rochester first-time applicants, 63% of the 62 were admitted, well exceeding the 47% national acceptance rate.
• 72% of students with a GPA of 3.6 or higher were accepted.
• In the past two years, Rochester students and alumni have matriculated at medical schools including: Duke University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, Emory University, Case Western Reserve University, New York University, SUNY Upstate, University of Buffalo, Mount Sinai College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, SUNY Brooklyn, University of Maryland, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Southern California, Temple University and the University of Connecticut

Those applying to Arts and Sciences, Education as well as Engineering and Computer Science programs fare as well as their colleagues who apply to law or medical programs. Members of the Class of 2006 indicate pursuing the following advanced degrees…

• Yale University, PhD in Biology
• University of Michigan, MPH in Public Health
• Brown University, PhD in Biochemistry
• U of R Simon School, MBA in Marketing
• Princeton University, PhD in Economics
• University of Pittsburgh, PhD in Bioengineering
• University of Florida, PhD in Astronomy
• Northwestern, PhD in Communications
• Teachers College, Columbia University, M.Ed
• Duke University, PhD in Pharmacology
• Syracuse University, MS in Public Relations
• University of Iowa, PhD in Psychology
• UC San Diego, PhD in Molecular Pathology
• Princeton University, PhD in Computer Science
• Cornell University, DVM in Veterinary Medicine
• Rice University, PhD in Mathematics

What is the status of graduates as of commencement?

Based on an annual survey in early spring, approximately 70% of seniors had offers for full-time positions, internships or had already received acceptances to graduate and professional school.  Many students just begin searching at this point, previously concentrating on studies, 20% are beginning their search or currently searching.  Among the many exciting job offers accepted by graduates over the past few years include:

• Change Implementation Associate, Towers Perrin
• Analyst, Banc of America Securities LLC
• Optical Engineer, Xinetics, Inc.
• Actuarial Analyst, Mercer
• Veterinary Technician, Quarry Ridge Animal Hospital
• Legal Assistant, Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP
• Study Coordinator, U of R Brain and Cognitive Science Dept.
• Assistant Media Planner, Universal McCann
• Forensic Computer Information Specialist, The Port Authority of NY & NJ
• Software Engineer, Google
• Research Assistant, Boeing
• Transfer Pricing Analyst, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Engineer, Woodard & Curran
• Teacher, New England Center for Children

ABILITY TO ARTICULATE GOALS

When surveyed, recent graduating seniors could identify particular fields on which their job or graduate school search was focused and identify their level of focus.

• 65% of students were focused or extremely focused on their identified fields.

CONFIDENCE IN JOB SEARCH SKILLS

• When surveyed, graduates over the last three years were confident in their job search skills.
• 77% of respondents rated their confidence level in regards to achieving future career goals as strong or extremely strong.

WHAT SERVICES ARE OFFERED AFTER GRADUATION?

Because we realize that career development truly begins as of commencement, we continue to offer services and resources to oUR alumni and alumnae, and we have devised new and effective web-based and tele-counseling strategies and approaches.