Positive trend continues for recent Boston College graduates

Ninety-six p.c of graduates from the Boston School Class of 2021 are employed, finding out in graduate college, or engaged in a fellowship or significant volunteer expertise, based on survey outcomes launched by the Workplace of Institutional Analysis & Planning and the Boston School Profession Heart.

The findings, which characterize a 3 p.c improve from the Class of 2020 survey, underscore the worth of a Boston School training and showcase diverse accomplishments of BC graduates who earned their diplomas final 12 months, based on directors.

“Regardless of the upheaval brought on by the pandemic, the Class of 2021 loved remarkably profitable post-graduate, first-destination outcomes,” mentioned Affiliate Vice President for Profession Companies Joseph Du Pont. “Their success is a testomony to their effort and the wealthy expertise they’d in and outdoors the classroom at Boston School.”

In response to the survey outcomes, 70 p.c of graduates have entered the workforce, with the bulk (84 p.c) receiving job affords by the top of the second semester of their senior 12 months. Their occupations cowl a spread of industries: 25 p.c are employed by monetary companies and actual property corporations, together with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers; 19 p.c are working in well being care and the sciences at establishments comparable to Boston Kids’s Hospital and Massachusetts Basic Hospital; 12 p.c have jobs at know-how, consulting, and administration firms comparable to Oracle and IBM. The median wage reported by members of the Class of 2021 is $62,000.

Of those college students, 69 p.c mentioned they utilized sources provided by the Boston School Profession Heart to be able to safe their employment, such because the campus Profession Honest, Handshake job postings, or networking alternatives.