Where do Rice graduates go?

anxiousmom
Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:47:46 +0000

A total of 1,176 students received degrees in May 2007. A total of 567
students graduating with bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degrees in May 2007
responded to the annual Career Services’ Post-Graduate Survey. The respondent pool
consisted of 358 bachelor’s degree recipients and 209 graduate degree recipients. The on
line survey was administered to the bachelor’s degree recipients a week prior to
graduation. The survey was administered to master’s and doctoral candidates when they
submitted their theses and dissertations to the Vice President for graduate studies.

I agree that you can go anywhere with a Rice degree. The survey mentioned above just looks at undergrads a week before they graduate - so it looks at where the kids who reply to the survey START OFF. Not where they end up 3 or 5 years later. In the case of my daughter, she might have replied “undecided”. She ended up spending the next almost two years in a foreign country, first studying (paid by Rice), now working for a NGO with refugees. She will likely go to law or grad school in the next few years, but that will not be shown on this survey. Also, some students start out with big multinational Houston companies, then transfer on to other parts of the corporations in other locations (Houston has more fortune 500 companies now than any other city in the US), so don’t look at the survey and think, “Texas? Why do so many students end up in Texas?” The survey only looks at where students think they will be a week before undergrad graduation. :)