Careers & Connecting with Alumni

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For you, life after Duke might include your first professional job, or graduate school, or a year spent teaching or traveling. Whatever your interests are, talk with your advisors about how to prepare in the best way possible.

Interested in what other alumni have done?

What's one way to see the legacy of a great university? Watch what its alumni do! Here are just a few of the many Duke alumni who are making a difference in the world today.

Notable Alumni

Alumni Career Survey

We conducted an alumni survey in 2017 to track the career paths of our undergraduates over time. We looked at more than 30 career categories and grouped majors by four major divisions: humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and engineering. We surveyed the class of 1997 (20 years after graduation), the class of 2007 (10 years after graduation), and the class of 2012 (5 years after graduation). What we found is that alumni are active in nearly all career categories, regardless of major!

Career Survey Results