Class of 2015First Destination Survey Report

Provided by Terry Middendorf, Career Development Center

Table of Contents

Introduction & Highlights Page 1

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Hamline Schools

Employment Status

Educational Status

Types of Employment

Salary Range Information

Job Satisfaction

Sample Employers

Sample Job Titles

Sample Graduate Schools

Sample Areas of Study

Thank you to Matt Beehr from Institutional Effectiveness for his work on data analysis.

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Introduction & Highlights

All students receiving a bachelor’s degree from July 2014 to June 2015 were surveyed (total = 460). The initial round of data was collected via the web beginning in January 2016. Nonrespondents were then contacted via paper mailings. Additional data was obtained by locating the graduates’ LinkedIn or other online profiles, by additional communications with the graduates, or by educational data obtained from the National Student Clearinghouse. Data collection ended in June 2016, with information ultimately found for 370 graduates (80%).

Highlights of the data acquired include: • 80% response rate to the First Destination Survey (370/460 students), breaking the previous year’s

record of 72%• 89.6% of graduates are employed full time, performing volunteer service (Peace Corps,

AmeriCorps, etc), military service, or pursuing additional education full time

• 62.4% employed full time

• 22.7% pursuing additional education full time

• 3.1% full time volunteer service

• 1.4% military service

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Hamline Schools

Employment Status

Graduate data gathered from Pipers of the College of Liberal Arts, the Hamline School of Business, and the Hamline School of Education indicates that the majority of respondents attended the College of Liberal Arts (310 students or 83%) with the School of Business contributing 68 or 18% of graduates. The School of Education made up almost 3% accounting for 10 individuals.

*Students with majors in more than one school were counted twice.

The majority of Pipers (224) are employed full-time and make up 62.4% of respondents. Employed part-time are 74 graduates or 20.6% of the polled class while 31 (8.6%) are not currently employed and not seeking employment. Fourteen individuals (3.9%) are currently unemployed and seeking a job position. Additionally, 11 graduates (3.1%) are participating in volunteer services or unpaid internships and 5 Pipers (1.4%) participate in some form of military service.

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Education Status

Types of Employment

A total of 69.7% of the graduates, 258 Pipers, are not currently pursuing additional education after completing their undergraduate degrees at Hamline University. Of the students pursuing additional educational, 84 of them (22.7%) are full-time students and 28 (7.6%) are part-time students. A sample of the institutions they are attending and degrees these Pipers are seeking is listed on page 7.

Two hundred and twenty-two graduates with full-time positions responded with information detaling their types of employment. The majority of those graduates, 132 or 59.5% are employed in the private sector. The next greatest occupied field was education with 30 graduates (13.5%), closely followed by the 29 Pipers (13.1%) working in health care. Nonprofit and government positions were similarly close in numbers with 14 graduates (6.3%) and 13 graduates (5.9%) respectively.

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Salary Range Information

Job Satisfaction

Survey results indicate that the highest number of graduates, 24.1% (32 students), are paid in the $30,001 to $40,000 range. Those paid between $20,001 and $30,000 constitute 23.3% of Pipers (31 students). Earning $40,001 to $50,000 are 19.5% of Pipers (26 students) while 15% of graduates (20 students) are in the $50,001 to $60,000 annually bracket. Only 10.5% graduates (14 students) earn between $1 and $20,000. Additionally, 3.8% of respondents (5 students) each report earning either $60,001 to $70,000 or more than $70,000 a year.

89.9% of Pipers employed full-time are ‘Very Satisfied’ or ‘Satisfied’

with their current position.

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Sample Employers & Number of Hires

3M - 44th Judicial District of Minnesota - 1Aerotek - 1Allianz - 1American Red Cross - 1Ameriprise Financial - 2Boston Scientific - 1Boulay - 2Boyum & Barenscheer PLLP - 1St. Joseph’s Home for Children - 1Cedar Rapids Police Department - 1Childrens Hospital - 1CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP - 1Coodin & Overson, PLLP - 1Coyle Strahan & Associates - 1Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) - 1Digital River - 1DTI Global - 1Ecolab Inc. - 1Ernst & Young - 2Fairview Health Services - 2Hamline University - 6Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C. - 1Hennepin County District Court - 1Independent School District 15 - 1Intermediate School District 916 NE - 1Kingston High School - 1KPMG, LLP - 1Krueger Law Firm - 1Lakes Area Graphix & Sign Worx - 1Lyngblomsten - 1Mayo Clinic - 2Medtronic - 1Minneapolis Public Schools - 2Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans - 1Minnesota House of Representatives - 1Minnesota Math and Science Academy - 1Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - 1

National Dizzy & Balance Center - 1National Institutes of Health - 1Northmarq Capital - 2OptumHealth/UHG - 2Park Nicollet Health Services - 1Paschal Nwokocha Law Offices, LLC - 1Patterson Companies, Inc. - 2Prime Therapeutics - 1Ramsey County Public Defenders - 1Red Cloud Indian School - 1Regions Hospital - 1Robert Half Legal - 1Roseville Area School - 1Saint Paul Public Schools - 1Saint Thomas Academy - 1Sanford Hospital - 1Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. - 2South High - 1South Metro Human Services - 2Sovos Compliance - 2SPS Commerce - 1Target Corporation - 4Tewksbury & Kerfeld, P.A. - 1The Brewer Group - 1The Mediation Center - 1Thomson Reuters - 2Travelers - 2Twin Cities Orthopedics - 1U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services - 2United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - 1University of Minnesota - 2Volunteers of America Minnesota and Wisconsin - 1Walt Disney World Resort - 1Wells Fargo - 2West Monroe Partners - 1Willis Towers Watson - 1Windom Area School District - 1YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities - 1

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Sample Job Titles

2nd Grade Teacher4th Grade TeacherAdmission CounselorAssistant ManagerAssociateAssociate MarketerAudit AssociateBenefits AdministratorBiological Science TechnicianBiomedical Regulatory AnalystBrokerBusiness AnalystBusiness Development AssociateCareer Development SpecialistClinical AssistantClinical Review Pharmacy TechnicianCognitive TrainerCommunications OfficerConsultantCourt ClerkCultural LiaisonData AnalystDigital Media SpecialistEnglish TeacherEvents ManagerExecutive Team LeaderFinancial AnalystFleet Territory ManagerHealth EducatorHockey PlayerInsights AnalystLab AssistantLanguage Arts TeacherLegal AssistantLegislative Assistant

Marketing/Communications CoordinatorMedia PlannerMedical Imaging AssistantMental Health AssociateMental Health CounselorParalegalPatient Care CoordinatorPension AnalystPolice OfficerProduct Marketing CoordinatorProgrammerPsychiatric AssociateQuality Assurance AnalystQuality Assurance ChemistRecruiterReporting AnalystResearch AssociateResident ManagerResidential CounselorScience TeacherSenior Account ManagerSenior Court ClerkSenior Predictive AnalystSenior Refugee SpecialistSocial Studies TeacherSoftware EngineerStaff AccountantStaff Performance ManagerStaff WriterStatewide Program AdministratorSupervisor/Environmental ServicesTax AccountantYouth CounselorYouth LeaderYouth Support Program Manager

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Sample Graduate Schools Sample Areas of Study

American UniversityAmerican University of the CaribbeanArgosy UniversityArizona Summit Law SchoolBerklee College of MusicCarroll UniversityCentral Michigan UniversityColorado State UniversityCreighton UniversityDes Moines UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGrand Canyon UniversityHamline UniversityHazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction StudiesJackson State UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceLuther SeminaryMarquette UniversityMinnesota State University - MankatoMissouri Baptist UniversityMitchell | Hamline School of LawNorthern Michigan UniversityOhio State UniversityPacific UniversitySaint Mary’s University of MinnesotaSt. Cloud State UniversityUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of California - IrvineUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Nebraska - LincolnUniversity of North Carolina - WilmingtonUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of San DiegoUniversity of St. ThomasUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeUniversity of Wisconsin - Stout

Chemical BiologyClinical CounselingCreative WritingCriminal Justice/Legal StudiesCriminology, Law, and SocietyData ScienceDentistryEducationEpidemiologyFilm ScoringHistoryHuman ResourcesInternational DevelopmentInternational RelationsLawLiterature and Cultural TheoryMarriage and Family TherapyMedicineNursingOccupational TherapyOptometryOsteopathic MedicinePharmacyPhysical TherapyPolitical SciencePrintmakingPublic AdministrationPublic Health AdministrationPublic Policy AdministrationReligionScience of AdministrationSoftware EngineeringSport and Exercise PsychologyTeaching