Post-College Outcomes

Each year, UChicago students secure offers for a wide range of post-college opportunities. College alumni are employed by leading organizations in a variety of industries, pursuing advanced degrees at top graduate programs, starting their own businesses, and serving the greater good through organizations such as the Peace Corps and Teach for America.

Class of 2026 Post-College Offers

Data Methodology: Data Methodology: This data reflects students’ offer status as of June 2026 and includes undergraduate students who graduated in Autumn Quarter 2025, Winter Quarter 2026, and Spring Quarter 2026.

Class of 2026 Job and Graduate School Offer Data

98% of Class of 2026 students received post-college offers by graduation. Of those students, 67% received employment offers and 33% received graduate school offers.

Employment Offer Industries

  • Arts & Entertainment - 4%

  • Consulting - 13%

  • Corporate and Other Business - 6%

  • Education - 10%

  • Entrepreneurship/Start-Ups - 3%

  • Financial Services - 32%

  • Government, Nonprofit, and Social Services - 9%

  • Healthcare - 5%

  • Journalism, Marketing, and Advertising - 2%

  • Law - 4%

  • Science & Technology - 13%

This shows data for Class of 2026 students who received an employment offer and reported an industry.

Students have secured offers from prestigious organizations across a wide range of industries, including:

Industry

Sample Organizations

AI

NVIDIA, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Profound, SimCare AI

Arts

The Paris Review, United Talent Agency, Whitney Museum of American Art

Consulting

Accenture, Bain & Co., Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co., PwC

Corporate

IBM, McMaster-Carr, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Walmart

Engineering

Invenergy, QuEra Computing, SpaceX, Surface Engineering Specialties

Finance

Bank of America, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley

Government

Peace Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Federal Reserve

Healthcare

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, National Institutes of Health

Law

DLA Piper, Dovel & Luner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Paul Weiss

Media

ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Report for America

Science

Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Renewable Energy Group

Tech

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Palantir, Salesforce

The Class of 2026 has also secured graduate school offers from some of the world’s most selective institutions, including:

  • Brown University

  • Columbia University

  • Harvard University

  • Johns Hopkins University

  • MIT

  • Princeton University

  • Stanford University

  • University of Cambridge

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Oxford

Law School Admissions

  • 90% law school acceptance rate during the 2026 application cycle

Medical School Admissions

  • 91% medical school acceptance rate during the 2026 application cycle

Business School Admissions

  • 95% MBA program acceptance rate during the 2026 application cycle