Ninety-six percent of graduates from the Boston College Class of 2022 are employed, studying in graduate school, participating in a fellowship or engaged in service/volunteering, according to survey results released by the Office of Institutional Research & Planning (IRP) and the Boston College Career Center.
The findings offer information on the post-graduation lives of members of the Boston College Class of 2022 and underscore the value of a Boston College education, said administrators.
“The Class of 2022 enjoyed remarkably successful post-graduate, first-destination outcomes,” said Associate Vice President for Career Services Joseph Du Pont. “Their success is a testament to their effort and the rich experience they had in and outside the classroom at Boston College.”
According to the survey results, 76 percent of graduates have entered the workforce, with the majority (82 percent) receiving job offers by the end of the second semester of their senior year. Their occupations cover a range of industries: 26 percent are employed by financial services; 20 percent are working in health care, the sciences, or the environment; and 16 percent have jobs at business services, consulting, and management companies. Other fields attracting 2022 graduates were: government, law, public policy (7 percent); technology, engineering, startups, entrepreneurship (6); accounting (6); and communications, media, publishing, marketing (5), among others. The median salary reported by members of the Class of 2022 is $67,000.
Among the employers of Class of 2022 graduates were: Deloitte; Goldman Sachs; Ropes & Gray; Massachusetts General Hospital; Microsoft; Dana-Faber Cancer Institute; McKinsey & Company; Boston Red Sox; Dell Technologies; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Lionsgate; L’Oréal; and Boston Public Schools.
Of employed graduates, 67 percent said they utilized resources offered by the Boston College Career Center to secure their employment, such as the campus Career Fair, Handshake job postings, or networking opportunities.
Of the 18 percent enrolled in a program of continuing education, 65 percent are pursuing a master’s degree, 16 percent a law degree, and 14 percent a doctoral degree. The top areas of study are STEM (19 percent), law (16), business (15), and education (14). The most popular graduate schools include BostonCollege, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Duke, and Yale universities.
For the graduates engaged in volunteering or service, 73 percent are doing so through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. While 78 percent of 2022 graduates remained in the Northeast, graduates did move throughout the United States—42 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico—as well as to 19 other countries.The findings reported by the IR&P represent nearly 78 percent of the Class of 2022.
Most of the data were collected through a survey administered online from April to December 2022. The rest were obtained from Carroll School of Management First Destinations Survey, the National Student Clearinghouse, Boston College data, and public data.
Kathleen Sullivan | University Communications | May 2023