Graduate Outcomes

What happens after Occidental?

Our graduates carry curiosity, passion, and a liberal arts mindset into careers, graduate programs, and communities around the world. Because an ��«Ӱҵ education doesn’t just prepare you for a first job. It equips you to ask better questions, connect ideas across fields, and turn what you learn into meaningful work and a meaningful life.

Through internships, advising, alumni connections, and hands-on learning across Los Angeles, ��«Ӱҵ students build experience and confidence as undergraduates. The Hameetman Career Center helps students translate curiosity into opportunity—connecting academic interests with internships, research, and professional networks that shape what comes next. By the time they graduate, our students are ready to step into the world with clarity, creativity, and a strong sense of direction.

Below you will find a collection of interactive dashboards and other data that provide insights into the post-graduation pursuits of our recent alumni, offering a comprehensive view of their career and academic paths as reported within six months of completing their bachelor’s degrees.

The dashboards allow users to interact with the data in multiple ways:

Academic Programs: Click on different majors to see whether graduates from each program pursue the job market or further education.
Top Employment Destinations: Explore which industries are hiring ��«Ӱҵ graduates and the role or responsibilities a graduate holds within their organizations.

The data in the dashboards is interactive—simply click on any category to filter results by program, industry, or job function. This allows you to explore specific outcomes, helping you better understand the career trajectories of Occidental graduates.

Dashboards and Other Data

Overall Outcomes
Median Salary
Industries

Job Functions
Notable Employers
Continuing Education

Overall Outcomes

Working: Recognizing the diverse nature of employment, there are a number of important sub-categories defining employment that are tracked for individual graduates within their first six months post graduation, as reported through the graduation survey via graduate responses or knowledge-based answers. Graduates in this category are:

Employed as an entrepreneur
Employed in a temporary/contract work assignment
Employed freelance
Employed in a postgraduate internship or fellowship
Employed in all other work categories, including military or volunteer service

Continuing Education: Graduates who have enrolled in postgraduate or professional programs in the first six months post graduation, as reported through the graduation survey via graduate responses or knowledge-based answers.

Median Salary

Median Salary, College-Wide

Industries

Employer Industry: The broader sector in which the employer operates (e.g., Healthcare, Technology, Education) reflects the industry of the graduate's employment within their first six months post-graduation as reported through the graduation survey via graduate responses or knowledge-based answers.

Job Functions

Job Function: The specific role or responsibilities a graduate holds within their organization (e.g., Marketing, Research, Consulting) within the first six months post graduation as reported through the graduation survey via graduate responses or knowledge-based answers.

Notable Employers

Accenture
Amazon
Bank of America
City of Hope
Cambridge Associates
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Cisco
City of Hope
Deloitte
EY
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Google, Inc.
Habitat for Humanity, International
Human Rights Watch
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

LA County Department of Public Health
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Times
Mattel, Inc.
Microsoft
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Public Radio (NPR)
NERA Economic Consulting
Oracle
Payden & Rygel Investment Management
Resolution Economics, LLC
The Walt Disney Company
Toyota
U.S. Department of State
Warner Music Group

Continuing Education

The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization that collects student enrollment and degree data from over 90% of higher education institutions. Data presented reflects actual subsequent enrollment of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 graduates.

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Data Collection & Knowledge Rate

The dashboard reflects data collected using NACE standards, ensuring accurate and verifiable information about the post-graduation career activities of our students. The knowledge rate indicates the percentage of graduates for whom the college has reasonable and verifiable information about their career activities. This information is obtained either through response answers from graduates or knowledge answers from external sources like LinkedIn profiles or employers.

Response Answer: Information provided directly by graduates through survey responses.
Knowledge Answer: Data obtained from sources like employers or LinkedIn profiles when graduates do not respond to the survey.

Survey Background

The First Destination Survey is conducted through Handshake, our career services platform, following standards set by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The survey gathers data on students who graduated with a bachelor's degree between July 1st and June 30th of a graduating class year.

Data sources: Classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 graduation surveys as reported in the first six months post graduation.

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