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Class of 2007 (Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)

Every year the Career Center conducts an annual survey of the initial postgraduate activities of Bachelor’s degree students. Our primary focus for this report is to provide students interested in this major with examples of the wide variety of employment and graduate school choices past students have made. Data for 2007 includes survey responses from Summer 2006, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007. For more information on how the survey data was obtained, go to Survey Data Collection.

Please note: Beginning with the 2006 survey year, students with double and triple majors are represented in each of their majors, whereas in past years their data were only presented in their primary major.


Response Rate
Graduated Responded Percent    
319 130 41%    

Activity Summary
Employed Attending
Grad School
Seeking
Employment
Other
Endeavors
 
42% 17% 25% 16%  

Employment Sectors & Average Salary*
For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Average Salary*
49% 12% 31% 8% $35,120

*Not all respondents reported salary. Majors with four or less reported salaries have no salary information shown to protect the confidentiality of student data.

Employment
Employer Job Title    
ABC News Bureau Desk Assistant    
Advent Software, Inc. Custom Report Engineer    
Air Tiger Express Customer Service Representative    
Apress Editorial Assistant    
California State Assembly Legislative Aid    
CGI SMS Business Analyst    
Citrix Systems Courseware Developer    
Conard House, Inc. Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist    
Del Mar Eye Care Optical Sales/Receptionist    
Electronic Arts Quality Assurance Tester    
Euromarket Designs Design Sales Representative    
Gear6 Web/Graphics Designer    
Goldman, Sachs and Company Investment Banking Analyst    
Goodwin Procter Case Assistant    
Google Inc Public Relations Associate    
Google Inc Recruiting Coordinator    
Keker & Van Nest Paralegal    
Law Offices of Scott Kauffman Paralegal    
Los Angeles Unifed School District Teacher    
Oakland Unified School District After School Instructor    
Oakland Unified School District Executive Assistant    
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide --    
Open Design Alliance Buyer    
Peace Corps --    
Piedmont Unified School District Network Tech    
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Auditor    
Private Law Firm in Austin TX Office Manager    
Pyramid Screening Technology, Inc. Staffing Engineer    
Regal Entertainment Group Assistant Manager    
Santa Clara Christian School 3rd Grade Instructional Aide    
Self-Employed Actor/Model    
Self-Employed Ballet Dancer    
Self-Employed Mortgage Consultant/Broker    
Self-Employed --    
Source Book Publications Editorial Intern    
Target Corporation Executive Team Leader    
Teach for America Teacher    
The Bay School Instructor    
Theatre Company Educational Coordinator    
United States Army Soldier    
United States Social Security Administration Claims Representative    
University of California Berkeley Executive Assistant    
University of California Berkeley Receptionist    
University of California Berkeley --    
Voxify, Inc. Finance Project Coordinator    
-- Teaching Fellow    

Graduate Study
Field Degree School  
Creative Writing Masters Johns Hopkins University  
Creative Writing Masters Saint Marys College of California  
Creative Writing Masters --  
Education, other PhD University of Michigan-Ann Arbor  
English Literature (British and Commonwealth) Masters Boston College  
English Literature (British and Commonwealth) Masters Outside US  
Journalism Masters New York University  
Law JD(Law) Cornell University-Endowed Colleges  
Law JD(Law) University of California-Hastings College of Law  
Linguistics PhD Stanford University  
Optometry (Od) OD/PhD SUNY College of Optometry  
Pharmacy Other University of California-San Francisco  
Public Policy Analysis Masters New York University  
Secondary Education and Teaching Masters University of California-Los Angeles  
Secondary Education and Teaching Masters --  
-- Masters Stanford University  
 
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