Following graduation, Elizabethtown political science students find jobs and/or attend graduate school or law school. Surveyed eight months after graduation by the Office of Counseling Services, more than 90% of political science graduates report each year that they found employment and/or were attending graduate or law school. Around 35-40% of political science students attend graduate or professional school as full-time or part-time students in the first year after graduation, compared to a range of 20-25% of Elizabethtown graduates in the 1992-2002 period.

In the last ten years, Georgetown, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Washington and Lee, Dickinson-Penn State, Syracuse, Villanova, Pittsburgh, Boston University, Dayton and Widener are among the law schools that accepted Elizabethtown political science graduates. Graduate schools that our graduates have attended include the University of Rochester, University of Colorado-Denver, Pitt, Virginia Tech, and the New School for Social Research. Most of the graduate students are or were pursuing master's degrees in public policy, public administration or student development.

Alumni Achievement, 1968-2002

According to records compiled by the Office of Alumni Relations, the vast majority of political science graduates have accomplished much in the public and private sectors since leaving Elizabethtown. Sixty percent of the over 200 graduates for which the College has recent career information are working in management positions in the private sector, government service or the legal profession.

Business/Corporate Management. Around one-fifth of Elizabethtown political science majors are serving as presidents, vice presidents, directors and managers in the business world. The list of responsibilities includes management, marketing, information technology, sales and product design. Corporations represented include General Electric, Gitano Manufacturing, R.J. Reynolds, J.C. Penney, Dupont, Brown and Williamson, Pepsi, Quest Communications, Marriott, Lucent, 3M and Sears.

Government Service. Another one-fifth of our graduates are working for the government at the federal, state or local level. Federal workers are serving as U.S. attorneys, intelligence analysts, legislative counsel, training coordinators, community relations officers and computer systems analysts in such departments and agencies as the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, FBI (special agent for counter-intelligence), Internal Revenue Service, Health Care Finance Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several graduates are serving as legislative or administrative assistants to members of Congress.