Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Golden DomeUpon graduation, a number of economics majors enter law school. The list of law schools that have admitted economics majors is both long and prestigious, and includes Harvard, Michigan, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, Yale, and Virginia among others. Upon receiving their law degrees, the students have put their degrees to work as public servants, as law professors, and in private practice.

Other graduates move directly into post-graduate education, pursuing advanced degrees in business, in economics, and in public service. Here too the list of graduate schools that have admitted economics majors is both long and prestigious, including MIT, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, the Kennedy School, California-Berkeley, and Chicago.

A significant number of majors take jobs immediately upon graduation. Recent employers include Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Ford Motor Company, National Steel, Bank of America, Accenture, General Electric Financial, Citibank, Deloite and Touche, Eli Lilly, John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Computer Services Corporation, National City Bank, Bank One, and A.T. Kerney.

Each year a fourth group of students commit themselves to a year or two of volunteer service before beginning postgraduate education or entering the job market. Over the last several years, economics majors have served with volunteer organizations such as First Book, the Haitian Project, Alliance for Catholic Education, Scalabrini Casa Del Migrante, Catholic Charities, Holy Cross Associates, and Jesuit Volunteers.