Outcomes Executive Summary

Executive Summary for the Class of 2024

The Center for Career Excellence empowers students and young alumni to articulate the value of their St. Lawrence education to navigate success in a diverse world through meaningful experiences and connections.

The following report outlines the results of the Follow-Up Survey for the St. Lawrence University Class of 2024. This report is a summary of the employment and continuing education activities the members of the Class of 2024 were engaged in seven to nine months post-graduation. The survey is an important component of the Center for Career Excellence’s ongoing efforts to better understand our graduate outcomes, as well as the employers and graduate programs with whom we should continue to build relationships. The report is shared with the St. Lawrence community to assist with advising students and accomplishing work objectives.

To summarize, 363 of the 490 graduates reported their career status for a response rate of 74.1%, a significant increase of 11% compared to the Class of 2023. Respondents completed the survey online, and extensive outreach was conducted through email, social media, and personal messaging through email, LinkedIn, and text messaging. The Center for Career Excellence also collaborated with coaches, other administrative staff, and faculty to seek their assistance in contacting non-respondents to encourage survey completion. Data was collected between December 1, 2024 and February 28, 2025.

We are pleased to report that the St. Lawrence Class of 2024 achieved an overall outcomes rate of 93.9%, with 70.7% of respondents’ primary activity being employed, 23.2% continuing their education and 6.1% being in transition and either pursuing employment or continued education. The Class of 2024 saw a 3.9% decrease in employment (from 74.6%), countered somewhat by an increase in the pursuit of continued education (up from 21.1%) compared to the Class of 2023.

Graduates of the Class of 2024 reported a similar number of internship opportunities as the Class of 2023 at 63.8%, still below pre-pandemic levels. However, 97.3% of respondents reported having at least one experiential work/learning opportunity (up almost 5% from 2022 and 2023), with 50% reporting a professional job (either on or off campus), 46.8% reporting a research experience, 31.9% participating in community-based learning, and 44.9% in off-campus study opportunities (a jump of 10% from 2023). While internship participation seems to have leveled off at the current time, we do see increases toward pre-pandemic levels in community-based learning and off-campus study. Interestingly, there are slight increases (39.5%, up from 36.8%) in the number of students who reported participating in more than one internship and those who obtained a paid internship (72.4% vs. 69.8%) from 2023 to 2024.

Internship participation remained an important factor in securing employment for the Class of 2024. Thirty-three percent of those employed full-time said that an internship or previous employment experience was influential in securing their current position. LinkedIn (28%), St. Lawrence faculty and staff (29.8%), St. Lawrence’s highly-ranked alumni network (26%) and graduates’
personal extended network (26%) were also key factors in respondents’ success in finding employment.
Finance remains the top career industry in which respondents are employed, with K-12 education second, government/public policy third, health services and health care fourth, and sports and recreation fifth. The top job functions include financial services/accounting/banking, sales/account management, education/teaching/coaching, administrative management/support, and research analysis/laboratory & field science.

The top-five continued education programs for new graduates enrolled either full-time or part-time in graduate or professional school include science and technology, education, allied health, business and social sciences.

The following pages contain more detailed information on the top 10 career industries and job functions, sources of employment, salary information, a list of jobs and internships obtained by the class, and a breakdown of graduate and professional school programs members of the class are attending.

*This study includes only self-reported data collected through the follow-up first destination survey itself; NACE standards allow for schools to collect data from various legitimate sources, not only student survey responses but also employer-, parent-, or faculty-provided information, LinkedIn profiles, other online sources, and fellow graduates to arrive at an overall “knowledge rate.”

See the Full Report.

See the 5 year academic division and department Outcome Profile summaries.