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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    
613 301 49%    

Activity Summary
Employed Attending
Grad School
Seeking
Employment
Other
Endeavors
 
39% 31% 15% 15%  

Employment Sectors & Average Salary*
For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Average Salary*
43% 5% 43% 9% $36,952

*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    
Abercrombie and Fitch Manager    
AIDS Foundation of Chicago Data Entry/Abstractor    
American Medical Response EMT    
AmeriCorps Medical Assistant    
AmProtein Research Assitant    
Bain and Company Associate Consultant    
Baxter Bioscience Quality associate I    
Bio-Rad Laboratory Chemist    
BioNovo Research Scientist    
Blackshore Properties, Inc. SEO Director    
Blue Lithium Online Advertising Analyst    
Capnia, Inc. Clinical Project Assistant    
Cell Genesys Process Development Associate    
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Research Associate    
Combithera Research Associate    
Deloitte Consulting Business Analyst    
Dr. Grotz Medical Assistant    
East Bay AIDS Clinic Research Institute Research Assistant    
Epiphany Biosciences --    
Genentech Research Associate    
Genomic Health Laboratory Assistant    
Google Inc Online Operations Assoc    
Harvard University Research Assistant    
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Associate    
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Associate    
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Staff Research Associate I    
Lawrence Hall of Science Teacher    
Meditab, Inc. Implemenation Consultant    
Microfluidic Systems, Inc. SRA I    
National Institutes of Health CRTA    
Oakland Unified School District Teacher    
Oracle Corp Application Engineer    
PFM Group Consultant    
Protransport-1 EMT    
Protiviti --    
R, Thomas Grotz M.D. Medical Assistant    
Re/Max In Motion Import Specialist    
San Francisco State University Computing Facilities Support    
Sangamo Intern    
Self-Employed Marketing Director    
Shasta Lake Veterinary Clinic Veterinary Technician    
Stanford University Clinical Trial Coordinator    
Stanford University Research Assistant    
Stanford University Research Associate    
Stanford University Research Technician    
Teach for America Teacher    
Teach for America Teacher    
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Biological Science Lab Technician    
University of California Berkeley Course Reader    
University of California Berkeley Lab Assistant    
University of California Berkeley Lab Technician    
University of California Berkeley Research Assistant    
University of California Berkeley Research Associate    
University of California Berkeley Research Scientist    
University of California Berkeley Research Technician    
University of California Berkeley Staff Research Assistant    
University of California Berkeley Staff Research Associate    
University of California Berkeley Staff Research Associate    
University of California Berkeley Staff Research Associate II    
University of California Irvine Laboratory Assistant II    
University of California Los Angeles Staff Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco Analyst    
University of California San Francisco Hospital Lab Technician    
University of California San Francisco Junior Specialist    
University of California San Francisco Junior Specialist    
University of California San Francisco Junior Specialist    
University of California San Francisco Pharmacy Technician    
University of California San Francisco Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco SRAI    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate I    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate I    
University of California San Francisco Staff Research Associate I    
University of California San Francisco --    
VA Medical Center Lab Technician    
Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Research Assistant II    
Walgreen Company Pharmacy Technician    
Westmed/McCormick Ambulance Service EMT    
XenoPort, Inc. Research Assistant    
-- Research Assistant    
-- Research Associate    
-- Research Associate    

Graduate Study
Field Degree School  
Applied Mathematics Masters California State University-San Francisco  
Biochemistry PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Biochemistry PhD University of California-Los Angeles  
Biochemistry PhD University of California-San Francisco  
Biochemistry PhD University of Illinois at Urbana  
Biochemistry PhD --  
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, other OD/PhD Southern California College  
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, other PhD Outside US  
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, other DDS University of California-San Francisco  
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, other MD University of Cincinnati-Main Campus  
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, other MD --  
Biomedical/Medical Engineering PhD New College of California  
Biophysics PhD Duke University  
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology PhD University of Colorado at Boulder  
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology MD --  
Dentistry (DDS, DMD) DDS University of California-San Francisco  
Dentistry (DDS, DMD) DDS University of Pennsylvania  
Education, other PhD University of Michigan-Ann Arbor  
Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, other Other --  
Immunology MD University of California-San Francisco  
Medicine (MD) MD Baylor College of Medicine  
Medicine (MD) MD Case Western Reserve University  
Medicine (MD) MD Cornell University Medical College  
Medicine (MD) MD Drexel University  
Medicine (MD) MD Drexel University  
Medicine (MD) MD Drexel University  
Medicine (MD) MD George Washington University  
Medicine (MD) MD Harvard University  
Medicine (MD) MD Medical College of Wisconsin  
Medicine (MD) MD Medical College of Wisconsin  
Medicine (MD) MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine  
Medicine (MD) MD Northwestern University  
Medicine (MD) MD Saint Louis University-Main Campus  
Medicine (MD) MD SUNY at Stony Brook  
Medicine (MD) MD SUNY at Stony Brook  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Irvine  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Irvine  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-Los Angeles  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-San Diego  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-San Diego  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-San Francisco  
Medicine (MD) MD University of California-San Francisco  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Illinois at Chicago  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Kansas Medical Center  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Miami  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Michigan-Ann Arbor  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Southern California  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Texas Southwest Med Ctr-Dallas  
Medicine (MD) MD University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston  
Medicine (MD) MD --  
Medicine (MD) MD --  
Medicine (MD) MD --  
Molecular Biology PhD University of California-San Diego  
Molecular Biology PhD --  
Neurobiology and Neurophysiology PhD Johns Hopkins University  
Nursing Masters Columbia University in the City of New York  
Optics/Optical Sciences OD/PhD Southern California College  
Optometry (Od) OD/PhD Southern California College  
Optometry (Od) OD/PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Optometry (Od) OD/PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Optometry (Od) OD/PhD --  
Pathology/Experimental Pathology PhD --  
Pharmacy Other University of California-San Francisco  
Pharmacy Other University of California-San Francisco  
Pharmacy Other University of Southern California  
Pharmacy Other University of the Pacific  
Pharmacy Other Western University of Health Sciences  
Physical Sciences, other MD Outside US  
Physiology Masters --  
Public Health Masters George Washington University  
Public Health Masters University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
Public Health Masters University of California-Berkeley  
-- MD Vanderbilt University  
-- Other New York University  
 
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