What Harvard’s new graduates are doing?
By Daniel at 3 June, 2009, 7:44 pm
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The number of seniors entering finance and consulting has fallen from 47 percent in 2007 to 39 percent in 2008 to 20 percent for the current Class of 2009. …More seniors indicated that they would be working in the fields of education and health care. The large increase in the number of seniors entering education—from 10 percent to 15 percent in the past year—likely reflects the popularity of programs like Teach for America, which received applications from a record-setting 14 percent of Harvard seniors, according to data released by the organization. Similarly, the number of people entering health care doubled, rising from 6 percent last year to 12 percent this year.
The share of seniors living in Washington will decline—from 7 percent to 5 percent—next year, a paradoxical trend given the Democratic victories in the 2008 elections and the fact that 74 percent of Harvard seniors describe themselves as more liberal or considerably more liberal than the average American. Overall, fewer students are taking jobs in government, a sector that saw its share of graduating seniors fall from 4.5 percent to 3 percent.
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