Life after Harvard

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Prospective Graduate Students

What do SEAS graduate students go on to do after Harvard? A look at some recent graduates highlights a diverse range of career paths.

Yun-Ling Wong
Associate Program Officer at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Griffin Weber
Chief Technology Officer; Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Marcus Roper
Miller Institute Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley

Clifford Brangwynne
Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Germany

David Ricketts
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Eric Lauga
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

Aaron Dollar
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science

By the Numbers

Primary Occupation Post Harvard *	%
Computer Software, Hardware, Systems	23
Banking, Finance, Communications	11
Engineering & Science	11
Education	8
Full-time student	7
Law	6
Consulting	6
Medicine, Healthcare, Public Health	5
Arts, Government, Politics	5
Other	18

* includes students who have earned A.B, S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees.

Open Doors

Academia
Our graduates have gone on to take positions at some of the finest research institutions in the world, including: Ben Gurion University (Israel), Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, MIT, National University of Singapore, Princeton University, University of California–Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Sydney (Australia), University of Virginia, and right here at Harvard.

Industry and Government
Those pursuing careers in industry and government have worked for technology companies such as Pixar, Google, and IBM; defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman; policy and research organizations such as the National Institutes of Health; banking and investment firms like Citigroup; and environmental consulting groups like Boston-based CDM.

Entrepreneurship
Others have become entrepreneurs. Our graduates started Tacit Knowledge Systems and SupplyWorks, Inc.. In fact, some of the most well-known companies in the world were started by Harvard graduates—for example, Electronic Arts, 3Com, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.

Prospective Graduate Students

Prospective Graduate Students