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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    
66 33 50%    

Activity Summary
Employed Attending
Grad School
Seeking
Employment
Other
Endeavors
 
30% 42% 18% 10%  

Employment Sectors & Average Salary*
For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Average Salary*
42% 8% 42% 8% $40,820

*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    
Keystone Strategy, Inc Analyst    
Microsoft Engineer    
University of California Berkeley Lab Assistant    
University of California Berkeley Visiting Research Scientist    
University Student's Cooperative Association Alumni Coordinator    
-- Research Staff    
-- Staff Scientist    

Graduate Study
Field Degree School  
Astronomy PhD Columbia University in the City of New York  
Astrophysics PhD University of California-Irvine  
Atomic/Molecular Physics PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Biomedical/Medical Engineering PhD Stanford University  
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Masters University of California-Los Angeles  
Nuclear Physics PhD Michigan State University  
Optics/Optical Sciences PhD University of Colorado at Boulder  
Pharmacy Other University of California-San Francisco  
Physics PhD --  
Physics PhD California Institute of Technology  
Physics PhD Columbia University in the City of New York  
Physics PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Physics PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison  
-- PhD University of California-Berkeley  
 
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