There's nothing you can't do with an innovative liberal arts education from St. Lawrence.
Your innovative liberal arts education will be a transformative experience. Our Career Commitment prepares you to use it to transform communities, companies, and organizations around the world.
At St. Lawrence, career exploration is embedded in all aspects of campus life—from your classes to your co-curricular activities. That means your career journey will be guided by your passions. Bring us your interests and enthusiasm and we’ll meet you with amazing opportunities and personalized plans to achieve your unique goals.
That’s our Career Commitment: a mutual investment in your future.
Here, career exploration isn't "one-size-fits-all," it's "choose your own adventure." Emphasis on "own." Your career journey is something you’ll take ownership of, but we’ll always be there to help you navigate it. It could include any and all of the following components as you tailor it to your interests and goals.
Team-taught by faculty and members of the Center for Career Excellence team, the course equips you with the tools you’ll need for a strong start to your career exploration.
Learn how to:
In fact, the earlier the better.
Whether you know exactly what you want to do or you’re still trying to figure it out, our career coaches can assist you and share resources that will help you connect the dots between the immense value of your liberal arts experiences and your future. They also partner closely with members of our alumni network to stay on top of industry trends and provide insight on the latest opportunities.
That’s why our coaches get to know your individual interests and make recommendations tailored to help you explore them. So unless your dream is to one day own a successful bakery specializing in whimsically-shaped biscuits, you won’t find a single cookie-cutter plan in your career preparedness roadmap.
Laurentians are eager to give back however they can, which probably explains why our alumni network has been consistently ranked one of the top in the nation. Our LINC Mentoring Program helps you tap directly into our network’s expertise, connections, and experience.
This program matches you with an alumni mentor based primarily on your career interests, though our Center for Career Excellence team also takes into account as many interest areas, identity attributes, and academic pursuits as you’d like to disclose during the matching process.
LINC empowers you to identify career opportunities, refine your goals, build your networking skills, and grow your confidence as you explore. Your mentor is there to answer questions, offer advice and insight, and help you understand the power of your liberal arts education.
That's why you might consider pursuing an internship or conducting research on a topic that sparks your curiosity.
Accessibility is a core component of our Career Commitment (so is alliteration, apparently). Should you choose to explore your interests through research or an unpaid or underpaid internship, we’ll help you through the process of securing funding to manage the costs.
St. Lawrence’s Career Commitment isn’t just made by our Center for Career Excellence team—it requires collaboration from your biggest supporters across campus. So if graduate school is your goal, we’ll partner with your faculty mentors as you refine your academic focus, research programs, navigate the application process, and come to a decision about your next step.
Our signature programs bring you into the rooms where alumni are making an impact. They prepare you to interview with confidence. The help you build your professional network and get a leg up after you graduate.
Deepen your understanding of global issues while learning to harness multiple perspectives—skills that serve our graduates well in today’s workforce. Plus, many of our off-campus programs also include a hands-on work-study component.
Dig deep into your passions. Investigate the topics and questions you care about most in the field, the lab, the library, or the studio. Work closely with faculty mentors who are just as invested in your work as you are. Research at St. Lawrence is something special.
Laurentians are making an impact in companies and communities around the world. We’re here to help you follow a similar path or forge a brand new one.
Every year, Laurentians headed for summer internships in Washington D.C. pack their best business attire, prepare to navigate the Metro system, and tap their networks to find temporary housing in our nation’s capital city. Many of these students got their first taste of living and working in D.C. while on a SLU Connect networking trip earlier in the year.
Members of St. Lawrence’s Class of 2023 are scholar-athletes, global citizens, campus leaders, and advocates. They're future diplomats, doctors, financial analysts, curators, and so much more.
For nearly a decade, Nature Up North has connected people to the environment through citizen scientist projects and outdoor adventures. By engaging in hands-on activities and research, the community-based program, funded by support from Laurentians and foundations, has helped many discover the importance of protecting the wild things and places that call the North Country, "home."
