LIFE AFTER VALPO

Job/graduate school Overall job/graduate school placement rate for Valpo 2007 graduates = 94.8%!

  • Arts & Sciences = 93%
  • Business Administration = 98%
  • Engineering = 100%
  • Nursing = 98%

Employment Valpo graduates are employed by companies/organizations such as:

  • The American Heart Association
  • Chicago Board of Trade
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Hong Kong International School
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Caterpillar
  • Biomet Orthopedics, Inc.
  • Catholic Charities
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Eli Lilly & Co.
  • GE Medical Systems
  • Lincoln Park Zoo
  • National Geographic
  • IBM
  • U.S. Air Force Weather Agency
  • Lutheran Volunteer Corps
  • NASA
  • Motorola
  • Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
  • Duneland School Corporation
  • NBC 5 Chicago
  • National Public Radio
  • Meguiar's International
  • Coors Brewing Company

Advanced degrees Valpo alumni earn advanced degrees from institutions like:

  • Oxford University
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Concordia Theological Seminary
  • Duke
  • Harvard
  • Yale Divinity School
  • Northwestern
  • Stanford
  • University of Illinois
  • Juilliard
  • University of Minnesota School of Law

Volunteers Among colleges and universities with less than 5,000 undergraduates, Valpo ranks No. 24 in the number of graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers. Currently 16 are serving abroad.

Fulbright awards Valpo ranks second among U.S. master's degree institutions in producing winners of prestigious Fulbright awards for international study, research, and teaching.

Honors college Graduates of Valpo's interdisciplinary honors college — Christ College — receive automatic acceptance into the Valparaiso University School of Law (with minor exceptions).

Graduate degree About 50% of Valpo alumni eventually earn at least one graduate degree.

Medical school 85% of Valpo's pre-medical students are admitted to medical school within a year of graduation; for Christ College students, the percentage is 100.