Placement Stats for Olin College's Class of 2011 Graduates
Show Strong Job Market for Engineers
Average
Starting Salary is Highest Ever; Microsoft Hires Seven 2011 Graduates
Olin College of
Engineering today announced the post graduate plans of the 88 students in its
Class of 2011: 55 percent have accepted offers of employment with an average
starting salary of $68,825; 30 percent will attend graduate school beginning in
the fall; and two graduates are starting their own businesses. Twenty-four
percent are staying in Massachusetts after graduation, of which 17 will begin
full-time employment and four will attend graduate school.
Top employers of
the Class of 2011 include Microsoft , which hired seven graduates, bringing
their total number of Olin alumni employees to 17; Google, which hired three
graduates bringing their total number of Olin alumni employees to 12;
athenahealth, which hired three graduates, bringing their total number of Olin
alumni employees to 9; National Instruments, which accepted three graduates into
its Rotational/Leadership program; and Parietal Systems, which hired two Class
of 2011 graduates.
Other employers
of this year's graduates include Advanced Math and Science Academy; Advanced
Micro Devices; Apple; Big Belly Solar; Boeing; Boston Scientific; Carbonite;
Creighton University; Draper Labs; Fortress Technologies; Giner; Institute for
Human and Machine Cognition; Intel; Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at
Columbia University; Lanza Tech; Liquid Robotics; MITRE; Mobiquity; NTE Energy;
Pratt & Whitney; Raytheon BBN; Rockwell Automation; The Second Glass;
Separation Technologies; Tesla Motors; TE Connectivity, Torc Technologies and
the U.S. State Department.
"The
responses we've received from employers is remarkable," said Sally Phelps,
Director of Post Graduate Planning at Olin. "We had 64 companies
recruiting on campus this year, and although we have a few graduates who are
not yet employed, they tend to be looking for something specific, waiting to
hear from companies, or planning to start their search after taking the summer
off."
In addition to
its remarkable employment statistics, graduates of Olin's Class of 2011 have
been accepted into some of the most prestigious graduate schools in the
country. Olin's top four graduate schools, with two 2011 graduates each
attending, are: MIT, Stanford University, University of
Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Virginia Tech. Three graduates are
pursuing advanced degrees at Ivy League schools: Cornell, Harvard and the
University of Pennsylvania. Eight graduates are attending a top 10 engineering
graduate program: Cornell, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and UIUC. Additionally,
three will attend schools in other parts of the world, including Sweden and
Switzerland.
Of the 88
graduates, 9 percent were granted National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate
research fellowships; one was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and will teach
English in Mongolia; while two were Fulbright scholarship runners-up.
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