Career & Life Ready Graduates
Empowering Career Readiness
93% of students utilized career or recruiting-related resources, programs, or coaching.
Source: 2024 First Destinations Survey
Future-Ready Graduates
82% reported confidence in their career readiness to secure employment and succeed in their career.
Source: 2024 First Destinations Survey
Integrating Academics & Impact
85% of students reported that their academic experiences positively supported their career development decisions.
Source: 2024 Rankin Climate Survey
First Destinations Outcomes
Track Record of Success
The Wake Forest Advantage is clearly reflected in our First Destinations Outcomes. Our graduates consistently achieve remarkable success.
Top Numbers – Class of 2024
By January 10, 2025, the Office of Personal and Career Development has gathered data on 85.8% of the graduating class. Data sources include survey data provided by students, LinkedIn profile information, and knowledge shared from academic departments and career coaches.
97.3%
Post Graduation Outcomes
65.7%
Employed
31.5%
Graduate/Professional School
Employment – Class of 2024
Represents 65.7% of Class
Employers
- Bank of America
- Deloitte
- EY
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- KPMG
- PwC
- Red Ventures
- Teach for America
- Wake Forest University
- Wells Fargo
Functions
- Finance – 22.3%
- Ops/Production – 12.7%
- Consulting – 11.6%
- Data & Analytics – 9.8%
- Marketing – 9.7%
- Education/Teaching – 6.5%
- Information Tech – 4.3%
- Healthcare Services – 3.6%
- Research – 2.7%
- Other Functions – 16.8%
Industries
- Investment Banking – 12.6%
- Healthcare – 9.7%
- Mgt. Consulting – 9.2%
- Investment/Port. Mgt. – 6.4%
- Higher Education – 6.1%
- Accounting – 3.9%
- Internet & Software – 3.6%
- Comm. Banking – 3.5%
- Advertising, PR, Mkt. – 3.2%
- Other Industries – 41.8%
States
- New York – 27.4%
- North Carolina – 23.7%
- District of Columbia – 6.1%
- Massachusetts – 4.4%
- Georgia – 3.9%
- Virginia – 3.6%
- Texas – 3.3%
- California – 2.9%
- Illinois – 2.8%
- Other States – 21.9%
Graduate/Professional School – Class of 2024
Represents 31.5% of the Class
39.4%
Business-Related
32.6%
Arts & Sciences
13.8%
Law School
13.8%
Medicine/Health
3.1%
Graduate – Other
Top Graduate Schools
- Columbia College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- UNC Chapel Hill
- University of Pennsylvania
- Vanderbilt University
- Wake Forest University
Top Law Schools
Law School data from 2022- 2024
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Notre Dame University
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Virginia
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University
Top Medical Schools
Medical School data from 2022- 2024
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Howard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- New York University
- University of Florida
- University of NC, Chapel Hill
- University of South Florida
- University of Tennessee
- University of Texas, Southwestern
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University