Career Report: Class of 2008

Our annual Senior Survey yielded a 90% response rate with 253 of 281 seniors responding. Below is a result of our survey for the Class of 2008.

• Employment - 60%
• Graduate or Professional School - 21%
• Fellowship or National Award - 5%
• Travel - 8%
• Other/Undecided - 8%

Employment
For the class of 2008, 60% of the respondents planned to work immediately after leaving CMC.

Industry

• Accounting - 12%
• Business - 11%
• Consulting - 22%
• Education/Nonprofit - 20%
• Financial Services - 8%
• Government/Law (Military) - 7%
• Investment Banking - 8%
• Medicine/Health - 1%
• Science & Technology - 4%
• Other - 6%

Here are some of the organizations where the Class of 2008 has accepted employment.

Graduate and Professional School
For the class of 2008, 21% of the respondents planned to attend graduate/professional school immediately after leaving CMC.

Academic fields of interest from highest to lowest were:

• Law - 39%
• Medicine/Health - 23%
• Public Policy - 9%
• Science/Math - 5%
• MBA - 5%
• Business/Econ/Accounting - 4%
• Education - 2%
• Other - 14%

Here are some of the schools the Class of 2008 will be attending:

Fellowship or National Award
For the class of 2008, 6% of the respondents reported receiving a number of prestigious National Award or Fellowship including:

• California State Assembly Fellowship Program
• Critical Language Scholarship
• Fulbright - Spain
• Fulbright - France (2)
• Fulbright - Germany
• Fulbright - Poland
• Humanity in Action Fellowship
• Pearson Teacher Fellowship
• Projects for Peace (2)
• StartingBloc Fellow
• Title VII Fellowship to study Georgian language