普林斯頓2009畢業生的職業選擇

上周五去普林斯頓參加Parent’s Weekend，其中有一個Presentation 是專門講Internship 和Job的。下麵是Presentation中有關2009畢業生的去向，同樣的數據也登載在Princeton University Bulletin校報上。The class of 2009 survey, conducted in May and June, revealed that:

• Sixty-seven percent of graduating seniors were pursuing full-time employment or yearlong internships, while 25 percent were planning further education. About 6 percent were planning to join the military, travel, play professional sports or pursue other opportunities. About 2 percent of students did not respond to the survey.
• Of those employed full time, the most popular career choices were investment banking and other financial services (33 percent); consulting and other service industries (25 percent); education and other nonprofit work (24 percent); government (6 percent); and manufacturing (6 percent).
• Twelve percent of the graduates accepted yearlong internship, typically in nonprofit, public service and international organizations.
• Among those planning further education, the largest concentrations were in science and mathematics (18 percent); law (17 percent); medicine (17 percent); humanities (16 percent); engineering (16 percent); and social science (16 percent).

會上有人問為什麽沒有很多學生去讀MBA。校方的回答是TOP MBA Program通常招收有2年以上工作經曆的考生。隻有少於10%的MBA學生是直接從undergraduate 上MBA的。

我感到最意外的是Princeton隻有10%的學生學經濟，卻有33%的畢業生去Investment banking and other financial services，特別是在今年這樣惡劣的金融環境中。

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