Prepared by J. Michael DeAngelis, Information Resources Manager Nayeon Lee, MBA 18, Graduate Assistant Career Plans Survey Class of 2017 Final Report February 7, 2018
Average Salary*: $67,893 Based on 1,115 reported full-time salaries. Volunteer Service, 0.8% Average Sign On Bonus*: $8,500 Based on 746 reported sign-on bonuses. Not Seeking, 1.2% No Information Available, 14.2% Expected Average Annual Bonus*: $14,087 Based on 761 reported expected annual bonuses. Seeking Continuing Education, 2.2% Employed Part Time, 1.3% Seeking Employment, 3.8% Continuing Education, 13.2% Employed Full Time, 63.2% Career Plans Survey Report - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 2,534 undergraduate degree recipients from the Class of 2017. *Salary and bonus statistics only representative of respondents who reported full-time employment (including: Entrepreneur, Freelance, Temp/Contract Work, Postgraduate Internship/Fellowship and All Other).
Military Service 0.3% Employed Part Time 1.5% Not Seeking 1.4% Seeking Continuing Education 2.6% Seeking Employment 4.4% Continuing Education 15.4% Volunteer Service 1.0% Employed Full Time 73.4% Career Plans Survey Report - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on a total of 2,180 individuals from the Class of 2017, representing a total knowledge rate of 86.0%.
Postgrad All Other Freelance 0.1% 0.7% Temp/Contract Work Postgrad 4.7% Intership/Fellowship 0.1% Postgrad Internship/Fellowship Entrepreneur 6.4% 1.3% Internship 0.1% Post- Graduate Internship 0.1% 5.1% Post graduate Internship 0.1% All Other 81.3% Full Time Employment Sub-Categories - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 1,601 respondents reporting their full-time employment career plans.
Insurance 0.8% Services 3.3% Telecommunications Energy 0.4% 0.8% Communications 5.7% Manufacturing 4.4% Education 6.6% Consulting 16.0% Technology 13.8% Finance 25.7% Healthcare 12.5% Other 4.4% Government 2.0% Non-Profit 3.5% Full Time Employment by Industry - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 1,577 full-time employed respondents reporting their industry.
Bioengineering, 1% Business, 1% Science Business Education, 4% Design 0.3% 0.7% Humanities 1.4% Social Social Science 1.7% Science, 8.0% 8% Engineering, 15% Computer Science, 1% Design, 1% Education 3.5% Science (non-medical) Fine & Performing 12.2% Arts, 1% Humanities, 5% Other Health Professions (including Nursing) 6.9% Other 2.1% Law, 12% Science (nonmedical), 13% Engineering 20.5% Law 11.5% Medicine Medicine, 27% 26.4% Other Health Professions (including Nursing), Fine & Performing 7% Arts 1.4% Humanties 3.1% Other, 3% Graduate School Programs by Field - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 288 respondents reporting their graduate school field of study.
September 2017 or later 3.3% Before September 2016 11.9% January - February 2017 8.9% September - December 2016 39.3% June - August 2017 13.2% March - May 2017 23.4% When Did You Accept Your Job Offer? - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 1,255 full-time respondents reporting when they accepted their position.
Other 5% Applied Directly 19% Through Academic Department 8% Through a Contact 6% Previous Employer (OCR) 33% Career Services Leads (Non OCR) 25% OCR 42% Through Career Services 45% Previous Employer (Non OCR) 17% How Did You Get Your Job? - Aug '16, Dec '16, May '17 Graduates Based on 1,108 full-time employed respondents reporting how they found their job.
TOP EMPLOYERS Company # Hired University of Pennsylvania Health System 58 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 38 University of Pennsylvania 31 Google 26 Goldman Sachs 26 IBM 21 Capital One 21 McKinsey & Company 20 Bain & Company 19 Boston Consulting Group 19 Accenture 18 Amazon 18 Morgan Stanley 18 Microsoft 17 Facebook 16 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 16 Credit Suisse 15 Teach For America 14 Deloitte 12 PJT Partners 9 Lazard 9 RBC Capital Markets 8
TOP GRAD SCHOOLS School # Attending University of Pennsylvania 113 New York University 12 Harvard University 12 Columbia University 8 Stanford University 7 Georgetown University 7 Duke University 6 Johns Hopkins University 6 Temple University 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 London School of Economics 5 University of Southern California 3 Yale University 3 University of Washington 3 University of Oxford 3 Emory University 3 Princeton University 3 Cornell University 2