Uncommon Women in Action:

Mount Holyoke College Alumnae and Student Outcomes

International Relations

Prepared by:

Career Development Center

Mount Holyoke College

Fall 2002

This annual report is based on data provided by the Alumnae Association and the Career Development Center from a survey taken six months after each class graduated and through regular updating of information in the Alumnae Association database.

Graduate, Professional, and Post-baccalaureate Education

What percent of International Relations majors continued directly into graduate, professional and post-baccalaureate programs? Within 10 years?

While figures vary from year to year, approximately 27% of each graduating class between 1994-2000 has continued on directly into graduate, professional or post-baccalaureate programs within a year of graduation. Based on longitudinal data, we also know that many more will enter graduate and professional programs within a five-year period. The reasons for not continuing directly are varied, but include the need to gain experience before entry (particularly for MBA’s and MD’s), to clarify goals, to earn money for graduate school; and a desire to take “time off” before continuing. Thirty-five percent of the IR majors with information from the Class of 2001 went directly into a post-graduate program. Fifty-four percent of IR alumnae with information have post-graduate education. The breakdown of the types of post-graduate programs attended by the Class of 2001 and Classes 1991-2000 are identified in Table 1.

POST-GRAD EDUCATION As of 5/1/2001
	Class of 2001		Class 1991-2000
Total Number of IR Graduates	30	100%	315	100.00%
Total Number of IR Graduates with Info	17	56.67%	246	78.10%
Total Number of IR Majors In Grad School	6	35.29%	133	54.07%
Grad	0	0.00%	54	40.60%
From them PhD	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Law	2	33.33%	30	22.56%
Medical	0	0.00%	2	1.50%
Business and Other Professional	0	0.00%	12	9.02%
Unspecified	4	66.67%	35	26.32%

What institutions are IR majors most likely to attend?

While Mount Holyoke women attend graduate and professional programs at a wide array of institutions both within the U.S. and in other countries, certain institutions are consistently popular with our students. The most popular universities for IR alumnae between 1991-2000 can be seen in Figure 1.

Figure 1. IR Graduate Enrollments by Institution 1999-2001

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	12
GEORGETOWN UNIV	8
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV	6
UNIV OF CALIFORNIA	6
RUTGERS-NEWARK	6
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS	5
HARVARD UNIV	4
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY	4
AMERICAN UNIV	4
UNIV OF WASHINGTON	3
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	3
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA	3
UNIV OF MICHIGAN	3
BOSTON COLLEGE	3
YALE UNIV	2
MIT	2
FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS UNIVERSITY	2
SYRACUSE UNIV	2
UNIV OF CONNECTICUT	2
NEW SCHOOL SOC RES	2
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA	2
UNIV OF MARYLAND	2
UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS	2
UNIV OF TEXAS	2
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH	2
CORNELL UNIV	2
INSTITUT D'ETUDES	1
GEORGE MASON UNIV	1
BOISE STATE UNIV	1
BENTLEY COLLEGE	1

Employment

What are the most popular fields for IR majors?

IR majors can be found in almost every field of employment. Each year, however, certain industries prove more popular than others. The most popular industries represented by the Classes 1991-2001 are, in descending order, Government/Law/Human Resources/Social Services (21.4%), Education (includes teaching and administration at all levels) (12.8%), Communications/Technology (11.2%), Finance (10.7%), and Health Sciences/Medicine (2.6%) (Figure 2).

What types of jobs do IR majors attain?

Table 2 provides a list of organizations that employ IR alumnae (1991-2000). NOTE: All information below is reported directly from Alumnae Association database, with no editing.

Table 2. Organizations Employing IR Majors (1991-2000)

Abbott Labs

Accenture

ACIL Australia Pty Ltd

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Alexander High School

All-J Fashions

Amazon.com

American Red Cross

Ammirati Puris Lintas

Andersen Consulting

Applied Proactive Tech

Associates in Rural Developmen

Association of the NY Bar

At&T Wireless Services

Austereo (2DAY FM and 2MMM)

Baise Miller & Freer PC

Bank of Marin

Beacon Health Strategies

Bear Stearns

Bertelsmann Incorporated

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundatio

Boehringer Ingleheim

Brobeck Phleger & Harrison

Brooks Sports

Brown & Wood LLP

Browning Ferris Industries

Brunswick

Calvin Klein

Cambridgeport Bank

Caminus

Capital Speakers

CARE

Carnegie Cncl on Ethics & Inte

CB Fleet

CD Squared

Cdi

Center for Student Missions

Centre du droit de l'entrepris

Chase Manhattan Bank

Chase Securities

Chautauqua County Legal Servic

Chestnut Hill Academy

Chestnut Hill College

Children's Advocacy Center

CIA

CIBC World Markets

CIC

CIGNA Healthcare

Citibank

Citigroup

Citizen Democracy Corps

City & County of San Francisko

City of Frederick

City of Philadelphia

Civicus

Civil Engineering Rsrch Fnd

Cleveland World Trade Assoctn

Colonial Investment Services

Colonial Mutual Funds

Columbia Univ Law School

Columbia University

Commnty Service Society of NY

Commonwealth Attorney Office

Concern for Children Trust

Congressional Exchange

Cooper Industries

Coopers & Lybrand

Corington & Burling

Corp for National Services

Council Of Chief State Sch Off

Council on Competitiveness

Council on Foreign Relations

Covad Communications Co

Credit Suisse First Boston

Ctr for Contemporary Arab Stds

Dade County State Attorney Off

Degraff Foy Holt Harris & Kunz

Deliotte Consulting

Depository Institutions

Dept Of Foreign Services

Disneyland

Divelit Development SA

Dorsey & Whitney LOP

Douglas County Schools

Dufour Co

Eastwind Trading & Research

Educators Mutual Life Insurnce

Edward Flink & Associates

EF Education

EF Institute for Cultural Chng

Elos

Embassy of Guatemala, Paris

Employee Benefits Design LLC

Enron Corp

Enron N America, Enron Corp

ESL

Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank Of NY

Federal Trade Commission

Ficorp Inc

Fidelity Investments IBG

First Call Corp, Thomas Financ

Fndtn for Middle East Peace

Ford Foundation

Franklin Reg'l Council of Govt

French Bank-Credit Lyonnaise

FSL

Fulcrum Publishing

Garrison Morris Haight&Morrow

Gates Foundation

General Mills

Geneva Corporate Finance Inc

George Washington Univ Hosp

Georgetown University

German Bundestag

German Government

Gessler Publishing Co Inc

Going Global

Goldman Sachs & Company

Government of Aruba

Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP

Harvard School of Health

Hasbro Inc

Heartland Center

Hirsch & Westheimer

Historic Warehouse District

House Fiscal Division

Idaho Republican Party

Inst For English Communication

Institute of Education

Institute Of International Edu

International Conflict Resolut

International Education Forum

International Republican Inst

International Technologies

International Women's Forum

Internl Womans Democracy Cntr

Investor's Bank & Trust

J. P. Morgan

Japan Image Commincations

Japan Information Access Proj.

Japan Pacific Resource Network

John Hancock Mutual Funds

Jones Day

Kansas Wesleyan University

Kawanabe Board of Education

Keller Thoma Schwarze Dubay

Kevin P Shay PLLC

Killington Gateway Condos

Kinder, Lyndeberg, Domini & Co

KnowledgeNet

KOIN-TV

KPMG

Kpmg Peat Marwick

KPMGLLP

LBA Management Consulting Ltd

Lbj Middle School

Leadership for Quality Ed

Lenew America

Leo Burnett Company

Lifespire

Lucent Technologies-Sturbridge

M & T Bank

Mass Dept Of Public Health

MASUM

MCI Center

McKinsey & Company

Media,Opin. &Mkt. Resrch Inst.

Mele Associates