<p>According to the following data</p>
<p>54% of UChicago class 2013 undergraduates had landed some employment opportunities before graduation. </p>
<p>I would like to know the breakdowns of jobs they had. E.g.,</p>
<p>Majors
Job locations
Starting pays
Education
Government
Industries
Companies</p>
<p>MIT provides some detailed data at </p>
<p>Are there any documents like it from UChicago? </p>
<p>Eddi–Not that I was able to find. The MIT report is outstanding. When my son was applying last year I thought the UPenn report was excellent also.</p>
<p>I must add that even though UChicago lags MIT in reporting, I have been pleased with what my son has been able to accomplish in this area in his first quarter and a half as a first year. But I agree it would be nice to see more data along the lines of the MIT report.</p>
<p>Kaukauna, how is you son doing? </p>
<p>It seems my D is doing well - taking core classes, participating some ECs, making friends, visiting the city. She seems to enjoy the college experience so far but she did mention she had spent a lot of time on homework. </p>
<p>I was a little bit worried about the weather since she had not been in cold climate (Chicago caliber) until very recently. She has reported she was OK - having survived two extreme coldness in January. Maybe younger people have more tolerance than older ones. Or maybe younger people want to have new experiences. Good for her.</p>
<p>I think more detailed information is useful - at least by major and by employer. I was thinking the career advancement office might have something like that since they had collected them in the first place.</p>
<p>From the data the office has provided I can see the college has remained (improved) the focus to get its graduates to employment after graduation. IMO 54% is not bad while a significant portion wants to go graduate schools. I am just curious to see where they landed.</p>
<p>Eddi - Glad your daughter is doing well.</p>
<p>My son is doing well also. He loves his friends, his house, the academics, he’s taken up a couple EC’s, he is fascinated by the City, and he views the cold as an adventure. [Living in the South for the last 20 years, I amazed at how good cold weather clothing technology is these days!]</p>
<p>Let me pass along a text my son sent me about his (core requirement) humanities teacher. “Man dad, my professor for (core humanities class) is one of the most eloquent men I have ever known. It’s like music when he speaks!” It’s very gratifying for this parent to get a text like that. It is the type of thing I hoped he would experience when he chose to go to UChicago.</p>
<p>He is working very hard by my standard, but fortunately he does not view it as work. For him it is fun. I think that’s true of a lot (most?) of the UChicago undergraduates. </p>
<p>I hope good things continue for your daughter, Eddi. </p>
<p>Thanks kaukauna. Glad to hear your son enjoys his experience too.</p>
<p>In addition to the clothing several factors play roles to reduce the absolute coldness my daughter has endured.</p>
<p>The university has adopted a night ride system since this academic year began.They have several routes on the campus and around Hyde park. A bus runs every 20 minutes along a route and stops by every residential house from dusk to early morning (less frequent after midnight). She takes advantage of it many times during cold evenings.</p>
<p>The campus is not very large. She can walk to anywhere from anywhere in 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Last her mindset is right - she knew Chicago winter was very cold. She has even skated on the mid-way ice rink multiple times.</p>
<p>Eddi- hardly scientific, but you might pull some interesting data from linkedin.</p>
<p>Of my college peers I’d say that there’s been about a third who continued on to graduate school in a variety of fields, including engineering, half in some kind of suit environment, and the remaining 20% of my friends went into classroom teaching. Unscientific and very skewed towards my peer group, but I have linguistics major friends doing software consulting and history major friends in the entertainment industry.</p>
<p>I was a remarkably average UofC student who earned a generous merit scholarship to the best graduate program in my field. (Yes, fair, my talents are particular and they are not necessarily in the classroom, hence the scholarship.) I’d say that in my professional life I have the “triple threat” (tiger mom jokes aside) of 1) the Big Name Graduate School program, 2) the merit scholarship, and 3) the University of Chicago degree. Much to my surprise the Chicago degree has done me the most good for my employers, particularly because I don’t work in Chicago and my field doesn’t have a lot of Chicago alumni in it.</p>
<p>So that’s my longwinded way of saying that I don’t know how much the data would help you, though I do wish it existed!</p>