Center for Career Exploration

Pathways and Outcomes

Brown provides the advising, research and resources to arm you with the knowledge you’ll need to thrive in today’s job market.

Pathways and Outcomes

Brown provides the advising, research and resources to arm you with the knowledge you’ll need to thrive in today’s job market.

Part of our job in the Center for Career Exploration is to arm you with the information you need along your journey of self-discovery to make educated decisions — and to help you reach your goals. By leveraging our career advising, workshops, industry experts, and more, you can achieve great things

As you explore different topics in the classroom and consider careers, our team can help you see what the job market looks like in a number of pathways. Industry-specific pathways programs prepare Brown students for a variety of structured and unstructured recruiting processes across different industries. Industry experts can help you understand what certain job fields look like, how they intersect with other industries, and how you can break through.

Industry-specific pathways

Careers in the Common Good

Each year, about 15% of Brown graduates immediately begin full-time positions in government agencies, nonprofits and community-based organizations, as well as social ventures and for-profit positions focused on social impact.
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Arts and Media

Brown alumni have an outsized impact in the arts and media. Nearly 1 in 10 Brown graduates immediately pursue careers in these fields, including recent graduates who have worked on Broadway, in film and television production, at news organizations and in museums and galleries.
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Finance and Consulting

If you are interested in applying your skills toward analyzing numbers and markets to recommend investment decisions or to evaluate complex business problems facing organizations you may be interested in exploring career pathways in Finance and Consulting.
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Science and Engineering

Nearly 10% of Brown graduates immediately pursue careers in science and engineering in both the private and public sectors.
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Pre-Law and Pre-Med Advising

In any given year, 1 in 4 Brown graduates attend graduate or professional school, or secure prestigious fellowships immediately after Brown or within a few years after graduation, including many in the fields of health and medicine and law and legal services.
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Visit the Career Exploration Library

An amazing online resource for internship, job, industry insights, campus connections, networks, and other resources.

Career Exploration Library

Open Hours with the Pathways Deans:

Attend any of the open hour times below to meet with the Pathways Assistant Deans. (No appointment needed)! All open hours take place at the Career Center (167 Angell St) except for our virtual hours which are on Zoom.

However, if the following times don't work for you, feel free to schedule an individual appointment on handshake to ask any additional questions you may have.

PathwayTimes/DateLocation
Arts and Media
w/ Rachel Edwards Harvith		Mondays: 12-1pm1st Floor Conference Room
Finance & Consulting 
w/ Scottye Lindsey '89		Tuesdays: 2-3pm
 (No Meetings on Nov 19th) 		1st Floor Conference Room
Careers in the Common Good 
w/ Jim Amspacher		Wednesdays: 12-1pm 1st Floor Conference Room
Tech and Tech Ventures 
w/ Viktor Gavrielov '15		Thursdays: 4-5pm3rd Floor Conference Room

 

Student Outcomes

Not sure how one pathway could lead to another? See for yourself.

Outcomes

141

2019 grads who entered the financial services field, more than any other industry

1,367

2015-2019 graduates in NYC, more than any other metro area

251

different employers on campus

72%

2019 graduates entering the for-profit field

39%

graduate students in Life Sciences and Medicine in 2019, more than any other field

Contact Us

Career Exploration Center

Box 1907
167 Angell Street
Providence, RI 02912

Hours

8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday

Email

careercenter@brown.edu

Phone

(401) 863-3326