Post-Graduate

Program alumni are employed in law, business (from investment banking to market research), consulting, journalism, higher education, community planning, social work, and in the arts as creators, producers, and performers.

The program has a remarkably high approval rating from its alumni. They credit it not only with giving them a valuable body of knowledge, but also with providing them with essential training in reading, thinking, discussing, and writing. American studies graduates appreciate the way the program prepared them to understand questions and issues comprehensively, as they actually arise in life.

Approximately one-quarter of program alumni have gone on to law school. About 10 percent have attended business school, while a slightly larger number have chosen graduate school at leading institutions in history or American studies. Others have earned advanced degrees in international affairs, urban planning, journalism, social work, and medicine.