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“Never back down in the face of adversity.” That’s a motto Elizabeth Reinhardt has carried with her in work and life. A first-generation college graduate who originally wanted to attend cosmetology school, she fell in love with marketing as an undergraduate …
Attending college can truly be one of the most unique experiences a person can have, and with it comes a lot of firsts. For many, it can be the first time they’ve lived away from home, the first time they’ve …
When Stephanie Johnson, currently an Information Security Manager at Freddie Mac, was just starting her career as an IT professional, she found herself sitting in her car one night after work asking herself, “Why am I not being heard? Should …
Money anxiety is a beast. In this episode, I talk through 5 steps you can implement to manage money anxiety while in your job search. I share my experience growing up low-income and continuing to earn a low salary even …
Alison LaLond Wyant The term Student Outcomes refers to undergraduate outcomes within the 6-9 months following graduation, providing a snapshot of Arcadia undergraduates’ success following degree completion. The data is collected through a survey distributed to students at graduation, and again in the months following, along with knowledge gained from faculty, LinkedIn, and phone calls to our graduates, in accordance with national standards. The knowledge rate of outcomes for each class was 79.8% for the class of 2023, 86% for the class of 2022, 79% for the class of 2021, 81% for the class of 2020, and 87% for the class of 2019, though response rates vary among colleges and departments.
Arcadia graduates accept positions all over the globe. The graphic displays the proportions of graduates working across the United States.
On average, nearly a third of Arcadia graduates enroll in a program of continuing education within 6 months post-graduation. The chart below displays the fields of study our graduates pursued. The represented "other" programs include degrees in International Peace & Conflict Resolution, Occupational Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis, Medicine, Financial Mathematics, and many others.
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I’m First! was created by nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity in 2013 to provide students who lack a family history …
