Recent Graduates
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With the analytical, evaluative and communication skills you learn in your politics courses, you will be in high demand for employers in our increasingly service-based, post-industrial economy. Skills like these will give you a wide range of career options in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Explore just a few of the career paths recent graduates have taken.
Our grads have worked in:
Professional schools
- The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
- The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago
Graduate Programs
- Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
- The Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University
- The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
- Johns Hopkins University's Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pepperdine University
- The University of Chicago
- The University of Michigan
- The University of North Carolina
- Yale University
Government
- Federal Reserve Board
- Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
- The Michigan legislature (as staff and as elected members)
- Peace Corps
- United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- U.S. Congress (as staff in House and Senate offices)
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- U.S. Social Security Administration
Non-Profit Work
- Association for a Just Society
- Campus Crusade for Christ
- Legal Aid of West Michigan
- International Justice Mission
- Institute for Global Engagement
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Sunshine Gospel Ministries in Chicago
- Teach for America
- World Vision
Our grads have attended law school at:
- Boston
- California-Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Duke
- Emory
- Georgetown
- Harvard
- Illinois
- Indiana-Bloomington
- Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Michigan State University
- Minnesota
- Notre Dame
- Pennsylvania
- Southern California
- Stanford
- Texas-Austin
- Vanderbilt
- Virginia
- Washington
- Yale
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- Recreation Leadership
- Speech Pathology and Audiology (BA, MA)
- Master of Speech Pathology
- Theraputic Recreation
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- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- Social Sciences
- World Languages & Cultural Studies
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