Bucknell Outcomes
At Bucknell, we value the journey just as much as the destination. That's why understanding where graduates go after Bucknell begins with understanding how they got here.
Students from across the country — and around the world — arrive at Bucknell ready to innovate, explore and solve problems they didn't create.
While here, they make scientific breakthroughs, embrace new ideas and work shoulder to shoulder with our impressive faculty. The setting makes a difference, too. Bucknell offers the resources of a large university but in an intimate, highly personalized environment where students are free to live, learn and grow.
As it turns out, a Bucknell education doesn't just prepare students for the real world. It is the real world.
Numbers to Know
Class of 2024: secured opportunities within nine months of graduation*
Class of 2024: average starting salary
Bucknell's ranking among liberal arts colleges for alumni mid-career salary
Percentage of students who are “Satisfied” with their outcome
*Reports being employed, in graduate school, both employed and in graduate school, preparing for graduate school or volunteering.
Prepared for a Career
Life doesn't happen in a straight line. That's why a Bucknell education equips students to follow the career path they choose — regardless of their major. Our interdisciplinary approach prepares graduates from all academic areas for a wide variety of industries.
Here's a sampling of where some members of Bucknell's Class of 2024 are working:
- AlphaSights
- Amazon
- BlackRock
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Clark Construction
- Deloitte
- Epic
- Fidelity
- Goldman Sachs
- Guidepoint
- J.P. Morgan
- Kraft Sports Entertainment
- Lockheed Martin
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Merck
- Morgan Stanley
- NBC Universal
- Netflix
- Northrop Grumman
- PWC
- RSM
- The Walt Disney Company
- Whiting-Turner
Prepared for Further Education
Four years at Bucknell provides a powerful foundation for postgraduate work. Our graduates have earned advanced degrees from some of the nation's top medical schools, law schools and graduate schools.
You'll find Class of 2024 Bucknellians at these graduate schools (and many more):
- Boston University
- Brown University
- Columbia University
- Duke University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Penn State University
- Princeton University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Tufts University
- University of Michigan
- University Notre Dame
- University of Helsinki
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest University
- William & Mary Law School
- Yale University
The Power of Bucknell Connections
HEALTH CARE
On her path to a career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Gissell Botero Rodriguez '19 tapped into Bucknell's pre-health advising offerings and alumni network.
Prepared for Success
External Comparisons
In a 2020 survey, Bucknell seniors said their college experience gave them the skills and knowledge employers are looking for. That includes these areas:
- Critical thinking
- Complex problem solving
- Written communications
- Oral communications
- Quantitative reasoning
- Teamwork in diverse groups
External comparisons dashboard
What Alumni Say
In 2020, Bucknell alumni were surveyed about their first jobs after graduation. Respondents said, at an above-average rate, that their jobs were meaningful, well-paying and used skills they learned at Bucknell.
Financial Indicators
Students graduate from Bucknell with less student loan debt than average and are much less likely to default on their loans.
Prepared for Support
Around here, we like to say that you're Bucknellian for life.
Bucknell graduates join a supportive alumni network of more than 55,000 Bucknellians. These alumni live around the world and represent nearly every industry you can imagine. They're ready to help fellow Bucknellians succeed.
It is what happens beyond the classroom that develops and roots learning. Through my experience outside my classes, I grasped the importance of personal relationships and the nuances of financial and technology markets in the Asia-Pacific region, became skilled at networking and business etiquette, and gained invaluable mentors who have given me the self-assurance to tackle challenges.
Keri Gilligan '24, business technology analyst, Deloitte Government & Public Services Consulting in Boston