University of Connecticut Placements: Job Opportunities & Placement rate, Packages

The University of Connecticut has been yielding a good career outcome rate six months after graduation, with the success rate for 2021 being 90%. 64% of students with an advanced degree had a full-time job and 5% were in part-time employment. 27% of advanced degree graduates are still searching for jobs. Of these, 60% of full-time job holders are working in Connecticut and the second most popular state for them to work is Massachusetts. As per U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges (2022), UCONN has been adjudged among the top 25 public universities in the country.

For the graduates working full-time, the average salary is $60,000 to $69,999 and for the part-timers, the amount is $20,000 to $29,999. It should also be noted that 36% of students were still able to find a job even after being affected by COVID-19.

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UConn Placement Highlights 

In the table given below you can find some of the major placement data which can provide you an idea of how the placement system works at Uconn:

UConn Class Profile 

The average time that a UConn (main campus) graduate takes to complete graduation is 4.1 years. Students from 113 countries build up the international student population in Fall 2021. The university offers 17 graduate degrees. The total number of full as well as part-time faculty and staff members at the main campus/regional is 5,127. A total of 276,969 University of Connecticut alumni exist globally, out of which 145,961 are residing in Connecticut. The student-teacher ratio is around 16:1.

Students can go through the details below to get a fair idea about the 2021 batch class profile.

• The total number of undergraduate students is 23,837.
• The total number of graduate/professional students is 8,309.
• The total percentage of undergraduate females is 52% and that of the males is 48%.
• 55% of graduate/professional females are enrolled in the university and 45% are males.
• 42% are undergraduate minority students and 24% make up the graduate/professional minority population.
• The total percentage of undergraduate females is 7% and 21% are graduate/professional international students.

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Types of Degrees

As per records, around 25 per cent of graduates enroll in a course of further education within six months of post-graduation. Student enrolment according to different degrees is stated below:

• Masters: 67.4%
• Doctorate: 23.9%
• Bachelors: 3.4%
• Certificate: 3.2%
• Associates: 0.2%

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UConn Employment Profile 

The pie chart below displays the career outcome of undergraduate students post graduating. 52.40% of graduates found employment and 36.50% planned to pursue further studies. 10.30% of students are still searching for jobs or looking forward to furthering their education.

UConnTop Employers 

Some of the brilliant agencies which have been hiring graduates from the University of Connecticut have been displayed below in the table.

UConn College-Wise Top Employers

College of Agriculture, Health & Natural Resources: Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, PathGroup, AmeriCorps.

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: Staples, Aspire Living & Learning, Massachusetts General Hospital, The Jackson Laboratory, BJ's Wholesale Club, ESPN.

Neag School of Education: DraftKings Inc, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, Official ASM Global, Stony Brook Athletics, SwingU, Washington Inventory Service.

Continuing Studies: Sandhills School, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care, Survival Frog, UConn Health, WN Campaigns, Garg Consulting Services.

School of Business: KPMG, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Synchrony, Citi, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, Stanley Black & Decker, The TJX Companies, Bank of America, Amazon

School of Engineering: General Dynamics Electric Boat, Collins Aerospace, Medtronic, Pfizer Inc., Tighe & Bond, ASML, Burns & McDonnell, FactSet Research Systems, Inc., Fuss & O'Neill, MTU Aero Engines North America.

School of Fine Arts: Animatic Media inc, Box 8 Creative, Coldwell Banker, Cox Media Group, DP Dough, Fiverr, Freelance, Global Atlantic Financial Group.

School of Nursing: Yale New Haven Hospital, UConn Health, Northwell Health, Elliot Hospital, NYU Langone Health, Trinity Health of New England, Bridgeport Hospital.

School of Social Work: Butterfly Effects, City of Meriden, M.C. Law Group, Merry Maids Franchise.

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UConn Placement Stats by Location 

UConn graduates have been placed all across the world in reputed organisations/agencies. Inside the US, the location with the highest employment percentage of university students is Connecticut at 55.12%, followed by Massachusetts and New York at 13.54% and 13.18% each. The locations with the least percentage of employment are New Hampshire and Colorado, both at 0.89%.

UConn Placement 2021 by College

The university college which witnessed the highest placement is the School of Nursing at 94.60%. Similarly, Neag School of Economics has the least percentage of employment at 5.5%%. The graph below displays the employment stats of the top 6 university colleges.

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In the given table we can see the average salary by job for different categories. the data given here in the table shows that the highest salary was from Sales and Business Development and the lowest is from IT & Software Development. The given data is sourced from Emolument.

The table below features the average salaries of different colleges.

UConn Graduate Salary by Degree 2023

The Doctorate degree holders from the University of Connecticut got the highest average annual salary at $110,000. This was followed by the graduates with a Master in Science degree and MBA degree with $96,000 and $91,000 each. Bachelor of Science degree holders got an annual salary of $87,000 and the least amount of salary was witnessed by the graduates holding a Bachelor of Arts degree with $80,000.

The table below displays the average annual salaries according to different jobs.

UConnCareer Placement Support

Freshers as well as experienced lot always need a support system that can guide them towards the right path of education or profession. The career placement support at the University of Connecticut puts all the efforts in shaping students effectively in order to be industry-ready. Before graduation, 78% of graduates took part in at least 1 experiential learning activity. Career counselling and training fill in the gap between your dreams and your destination with the help of target centric methodology. Students can connect with prospective employers through appointments in order to get an idea about the industry demands, trends, most in-demand jobs, etc and get their career routes well-planned.

Various facilities offered to University of Connecticut students by the career cell are listed and explained below:

Spring Career Fest: Every March, the career fest is hosted by the Center for Career Development which allows students to participate in an interaction with more than 150 employers and agencies from Connecticut and other states. They can get detailed information about different types of jobs, full vs part-time jobs, internship opportunities, and co-ops in summer as well as fall.

Career Webinars: Apart from in-person presentations, students and alumni both have the access to the entire calendar of webinars consisting of topics related to the development of professional journeys. Through these webinars, they can attend a career presentation virtually. Students who want to avail these are required to get themselves registered online and get the link for the same. Students will then be emailed a presentation video post-session.

Career Night: These are conducted for students to build networks with alumni and get to know about their professional lives, jobs, challenges they had to face, etc.

UConn Internship & Co-op Fest: Students can attend this fest and meet various employers belonging to distinct industries who wish to recruit UConn graduates for different internships and co-ops. They can also obtain personal interaction with those professionals and conduct queries related to their agencies, work types and requirements.

Interviews: One-on-one mock interviews are available for students in which they are questioned by professionally trained staff members. These sessions are of 45 minutes each and enlighten students with regard to traditional and behavioural style interview questions. Students are also provided genuine performance feedback, suggestions and skill strengthening activities.

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