First Destination Survey

University of Southern California Undergraduate Student Career Outcomes

The Career Center collects information about USC undergraduate students’ post-graduation career outcomes. This tool allows users to review outcomes by employer and industries, graduate program and degrees, and salary.

First Destination

First Destination refers to the postgraduate plans of USC undergraduate students 6 months after graduation. USC undergraduate students’ pursuits include employment, continued education, entrepreneurship, volunteering, and more.

Top Employers

Of the over 5,000 organizations that partner with the USC Career Center to find full-time talent, the list of employers below comprises those that hired the most undergraduate students in the selected year.

• University of Southern California
• EY
• Deloitte
• PwC
• KPMG
• Amazon
• Oracle
• Microsoft
• JP Morgan Morgan Chase & Co.
• Goldman Sachs
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• The Walt Disney Company
• Accenture
• Wells Fargo
• Teach for America
• Bank of America
• Creative Artists Agency
• Self Employed
• Boeing

Employment Industry and Function

Given USC is comprised of twenty-three colleges and schools, it is no surprise that the graph below reflects the myriad career interests of USC undergraduate students.

• Function
• Industry

Starting Salary

Fully employed USC undergraduate students working in the U.S. self-reported the salary information below. These numbers do not include bonuses or other forms of compensation.

Mean:

$72,261

Yearly

Median:

$70,000

Yearly

Employment Locations

A vast majority of USC undergraduate graduates chose to remain in the U.S. upon graduation.

United States

World

• United States: 96.97%
• China Mainland: 0.51%
• United Kingdom: 0.37%
• Hong Kong S.A.R.: 0.24%
• Japan: 0.16%
• South Korea: 0.16%
• Singapore: 0.15%
• Indonesia: 0.15%
• Canada: 0.15%
• Other: 1.24%

Top Universities

The list of universities below comprises those that enrolled the most USC undergraduate students in the selected year.

• University of Southern California (CA)
• Columbia University (NY)
• University of California--Los Angeles "UCLA" (CA)
• New York University (NY)
• Harvard University (MA)
• University of California--Berkeley (CA)
• Stanford University (CA)
• Pepperdine University (CA)
• Loyola Marymount University (CA)
• Northwestern University (IL)
• University of Pennsylvania (PA)
• Georgetown University (DC)
• University of Chicago (IL)
• Johns Hopkins University (MD)
• Duke University (NC)
• Yale University (CT)
• Cornell University (NY)
• University of California--Irvine "UCI" (CA)
• University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (MI)
• Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

Degree Types

The graph below reflects the advanced degree path of USC undergraduate students.

Fields of Study

The graph below demonstrates the popular fields of studies for USC undergraduate students who continued education after obtaining their bachelor’s degrees.