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Career Readiness - Nearly 80 percent of alumni surveyed stated that their Union degree helped get them started in their career

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Career Satisfaction - Union alumni boast more than an 85 percent career satisfaction rate, higher than other institutions.

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Career mobility - Union alumni achieve leadership roles early in their careers, many within the first 10 years of employment.

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Top Industries - Education, medicine, technology, engineering, finance and law are among the top industries of our alumni.

Historical first-destination reports are available on the Institutional Research website.



Top Graduate Schools for Union Alumni

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Business
Babson College
Boston University
Columbia University
New York University
Northeastern University
University of Pennsylvania

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Law
Albany Law School
Boston University
Fordham University
George Washington University
New York University
Suffolk University

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Medicine
Albany Medical College
New York Medical College
New York University
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Tufts University
University of Rochester

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Education
Boston College
Boston University
Fordham University
Lesley University
Harvard University
Springfield College

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Engineering
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University

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Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts
American University
New York University
Columbia University
George Washington University
University at Albany
Tufts University

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Sciences
Boston University
Columbia University
New York University
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University at Albany


Alumni in the Media

  • Alum pens essay about NYC marathon

    Matthew Futterman '91 recently wrote an essay for The Athletic titled, "My New York City Marathon: After her cancer diagnosis, my wife made me promise I’d keep running." Futterman is an award-winning, veteran sports journalist and the author of "The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis."

  • Alum's musical gets concert at Green Room 42

    Hip hop gospel musical "Big Quarterly" got a concert performance at NYC's The Green Room 42 on Nov. 16, with proceeds benefiting the New York Theatre Barn. Written by S. Todd Townsend, Kim Kilby '00 and Luke McLemore, "Big Quarterly" centers on the untold story of Peter Spencer, who went from being enslaved to founding the first incorporated Black church in 1813.

  • All about oysters

    Jimmy Mulpeter '15, who owns Old Kings Oyster Co. in Wellfleet, Mass., was recently featured in The Provincetown Independent in the article, "Jimmy Mulpeter and Jim O’Connell Know How to Feed Every Kind of Oyster Eater."

  • Alum named a finalist for prestigious award

    David E. Olson '06 was recently named a finalist for the 2026 U.S. Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, the largest unrestricted scientific award available to early-career scientists in the country. Olson is a professor at the University of California, Davis, and director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics.

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Data sources for this page:

  • 2021 National Alumni Career Mobility survey of the classes of 2011 and 2016

  • Union College alumni records from Advancement Information Services. Records are updated throughout the year. Unless otherwise noted, records include graduation years starting with 1998.