Employment Report: Master of Science Graduates
A career path is exactly that—a journey. The MS degree is another stop along the way.
Our MS students have a huge variety in their employment backgrounds, and we see this reflected in their employment report. Some are co-terms, overlapping their bachelor's and master's studies, and taking advantage of an additional summer to expand their internship exploration. Others have had 2-10 years of work experience, and are looking to move their careers to the next level and/or in a different direction. Some stay with the companies they already work for and study part time while continuing to work full or slightly reduced time, ready to move up the ranks after graduation.
Internships remain as important as they were during the undergraduate and early career years
Our MS students investigate opportunities to combine their advanced education with their existing work experience to tackle new challenges in focused areas.
Where MS grads interned
What MS grads did during their internships
Organizations MS grads interned with
Engineering & Technology
3i Inc
Amazon
Caldera
Celo
Convex Labs
Domino Data Lab
Ford
Lazada
Lyft
Microsoft
Mobi Systems
Muon Space
Novanta
Nutanix
Palantir Technologies
Salesforce
Samsung
Splunk
Tencent
Tesla
Operations/Supply Chain
Amtrak
United Airlines
Other
Cetrulo LLP
Goodwin Procter
Internship role titles for MS grads
Consultant
Associate Consultant
Consultant
Fundamental Analyst Intern
Summer Associate
Data Science
Data Analyst
Data Engineer Intern
Data Science Intern
Data Scientist
Engineer, non-software
ADCS Hardware Engineer
Mechanical Engineering Intern
Engineer, software & ML
Growth Engineer
Growth Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Smart Contract Engineering
Software Development Engineer Intern
Software Engineer
Software Engineering Intern
Moving into a full-time career
While internships continue to be a path to a full-time job, this is less pronounced at the master's degree level than the undergraduate level. Perhaps because master's students tend to have more variety of experience under their belt than undergraduates, many MS grads start their full-time careers with different organizations or in another industry than where they interned.
The exploration that our MS graduates have done both academically and in their internship experiences is reflected in the broad range of responses that we see in our employment data. While our a majority of alumni are in three main organization types, there is variety within those too. We recommend listening to our podcasts and reading our featured Stories and Voices for examples of the career journeys that our alumni have started and experienced. Current students and alumni can also attend our career events with quarterly informal "Career Chat" conversations.
Where MS grads go
What MS grads do
Organizations joined by MS grads
Engineering & Tech, cont'd
Sabi
Salesforce
Soal
Splunk
Tesla
Uber
Upwork
Verily (Google Life Sciences)
VMware
YouTube
Finance
Bank of America
BlackRock
Bloomberg LP
Centerview Partners
Citigroup
Coinbase
D.E. Shaw Group
Dodge & Cox
Fidelity Investments
Goldman Sachs
Greenhill & Co.
Intact Financial Corporation
Jefferies
JP Morgan Chase
Morgan Stanley
PayPal
Sentry
Silver Lake
Square
True Wind Capital
Operations/Supply Chain
United Airlines
Role titles received by MS grads
Consultant
Analyst
Associate Consultant
Junior Associate
Data Science
Data Analyst
Data Science Fellow
Data Scientist
Director, Manager, Leadership
Chief of Staff
Senior Manager
Engineer, non-software
Forward Deployed Engineer
GNC Hardware Engineer
Industrial Decarbonization Engineer
Engineer, software & ML
Machine Learning Engineer
Quantum Developer
Software Development Engineer
Software Engineer
Trip Planner Algorithms Engineer
Graduate Student (area of study)
Computer Science
Economics
Engineering Science
Health Policy
Humanitarian Engineering & Advanced Energy Systems
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Marketing
Mathematics
Wharton School of Business