September 27, 1996: Volume 38, Number 2

Class Of 95 Survey Results Announced

From Dinosaurus magazine to Bob Dole's presidential campaign, from Yale to the London School of Economics, the Union education is taking 1995 graduates many places.

Results are in from the Class of 1995 Survey compiled by the Career Development Center, and Associate Director of the Career Development Center Thomas Denham says that the response was positive. "I'm continually amazed about what Union students do after they graduate from Union College. I think they are really putting their education to work."

According to the survey, 64 percent of graduates are employed, while 30 percent are going on to study. These numbers reflect a slight increase (1 percent) in students pursuing jobs over continuing study (down 2 percent).

Only two percent of graduates report that they are unemployed, down slightly from recent years, while more graduates are traveling than ever before (4 percent).

The largest area of employment was sales and marketing (8.2 percent), up from only 0.8 percent for 1994 graduates. Not unlike the year before, however, many Union grads elected to work in education (6.8 percent).

Among those choosing to pursue further study, medical school proved the most popular (6.1 percent), and other large areas of study included law (4.9 percent) and education (4.9 percent).

This year, 96 percent of the 440 graduates responded to the survey.

Copies of the survey are available from the Career Development Office, and cost $2 each for more than one copy.

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