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Career prospects are pretty amazing. Graduate school placement is where we shine
the most. Just about everyone who is serious gets into a top program for
medical,
law or business.
Job prospects are impressive as well. The school doesn't do a lot of the work
for the students, but there are ample resources. Most important is the Brown
Alumni Network. This is best described with a story. I wanted to work in London
for a summer and take my now ex-girlfriend with me. She went to Columbia. I used
the Brown network, got an amazing job, and was on my way. Columbia had nothing
to
help her get in touch with alums. (We have a massive database.) I then went back
to the Brown network, and got my Columbia student girlfriend a job in London,
two
offers in fact. And, obviously, we get first choice for everything in the
Providence area.
Campus recruiting is somewhat unusual. Goldman, Sachs is the single largest
employer of Brown students year by year, and I think for total numbers as well.
The biggest recruitment areas, in no particular order, are Consulting, Banking,
Technology, Teaching, and volunteer work such as the peace corps. Its not
Wharton. There are a lot of students who do not want to talk to I-banking
recruiters, and go straight for AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, and the like. This
gives our recruiting an unusual feel. Otherwise, its based on long-term
relationships. For the highly desired post-graduation industries there are a
large group of recruiters who are almost like family. Good times or bad, they
are
always on campus. The funny thing is that the other major players in an industry
will almost completely ignore the University. For example, JP Morgan, Goldman
and
Morgan Stanley have many events, but Lehman, Merrill and Citigroup don't pay us
much attention. That's where the network becomes handy again. Students get
plenty
of offers from these firms, but they do the legwork on their own.
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