Career Services

At Illinois College, planning your future happens every day. From the first day you arrive on campus, you learn who you are and where you are going. At the Office of Career Services, we assist you to match your interests and skills with career paths and graduate-level education. At Illinois College, we have been developing leaders since 1829.

IC Professor with Student 

With 45 majors and programs, Illinois College students have enormous choice as they lay their paths toward successful careers. As you decide your major, consider how it will build your strengths into a set of skills that will make you a leader in your field.

Visit the Office of Career Services in Baxter Hall to explore internships and graduate schools. And visit our Student Work Office, also located in Baxter Hall, to learn the details of how to attain on-campus employment.
 
Where are Illinois College Graduates Employed?
Here is a very small sampling:
 
   :: AmeriCorps
   :: Archer Daniels Midland  
   :: Blue Cross Blue Shield
   :: Boeing 
   :: Caterpillar
   :: Catholic Charities
   :: Chicago Public Schools
   :: Country Insurance
   :: Crowe Horwath
   :: Enterprise
   :: Horace Mann
   :: Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc.
   :: JET Program
   :: JP Morgan Chase
   :: Monsanto                                                                                                 
   :: Nestlé USA
   :: Passavant Hospital                                                                          
   :: Peace Corps
   :: Pepsi Americas
   :: Prairie Farms Dairy
   :: Scovill Zoo
   :: Springfield Public Schools
   :: State Farm
   :: State of Illinois                                                                         
   :: St. Louis Symphony
 
Employment Rates and Graduate School Attendance
Illinois College surveys its graduates one, five, and ten years after graduation. Results from the one-year-out survey are below.
 

Employment Rates and Graduate School Attendance
Rates Reported by Illinois College Graduates

 

 

2008 Graduates
(1-year out)

2009 Graduates
(1-year out)

2010 Graduates
(1-year out)

2011 Graduates
(1-year out)

Activity

 

Response Rate: 178 of 216 (82.4%)

Response Rate: 139 of 176 (79.0%)

Response Rate: 174 of 223 (78.0%)

Response Rate: 156 of 183 (85.2%)

Employed and/or attending Graduate School

 

171 of 178
96.1%

128 of 139
92.1%

166 of 174
95.4%

152 of 156
97.4%

Employed

 

125 of 178
70.2%

98 of 139
70.5%

126 of 174
72.4%

111 of 156
71.2%

Enrolled in Graduate School

 

61 of 178
34.3%

38 of 139
27.3%

52 of 174
29.9%

59 of 156
37.8%

Data Source: Career Services Graduate Success Survey

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