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Where does a Union College degree take U? Anywhere you want to go!

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Career Readiness - Nearly 80 percent of alumni surveyed stated that their Union degree helped get them started in their career

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Career Satisfaction - Union alumni boast more than an 85 percent career satisfaction rate, higher than other institutions.

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Career mobility - Union alumni achieve leadership roles early in their careers, many within the first 10 years of employment.

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Top Industries - Education, medicine, technology, engineering, finance and law are among the top industries of our alumni.

First Destination Dashboard

Historical first-destination reports are available on the Institutional Research website.

Alumni Career Dashboard - 2025



Top Graduate Schools for Union Alumni

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Business
Babson College
Boston University
Columbia University
New York University
Northeastern University
University of Pennsylvania

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Law
Albany Law School
Boston University
Fordham University
George Washington University
New York University
Suffolk University

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Medicine
Albany Medical College
New York Medical College
New York University
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Tufts University
University of Rochester

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Education
Boston College
Boston University
Fordham University
Lesley University
Harvard University
Springfield College

Technical tools

Engineering
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Syracuse University

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Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts
American University
New York University
Columbia University
George Washington University
University at Albany
Tufts University

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Sciences
Boston University
Columbia University
New York University
Northeastern University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University at Albany


Alumni in the Media

  • Alum authors turbulence study

    Björn Birnir '76 was recently featured in The New York Times story, "Now Arriving: A New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence." Birnir is a leading scholar of turbulence, and is professor and chair of mathematics and director of the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  • Alums remember Robert Redford

    Alumni shared their memories of Robert Redford, who died Sept. 16, with WNYT News. Redford starred in "The Way We Were," which was filmed on campus in the early 1970s.

  • Memories of working at the fair

    Steve Koscs '83 recently shared a fun recollection of working at the New York State Fair with This is CNY. During the late 1970s, he worked at a food stand on the west end of the Midway.

  • Nominated for an Emmy

    "Military ambush with Albany County ties uncovered 80 years later," reported by WNYT, has been nominated for a New York Emmy Award. The story focuses on the military service of James Scalzo and John Greschiak, as researched and told by Scalzo's nephew, Peter Clouse '85.

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Data sources for this page:

  • 2021 National Alumni Career Mobility survey of the classes of 2011 and 2016

  • Union College alumni records from Advancement Information Services. Records are updated throughout the year. Unless otherwise noted, records include graduation years starting with 1998.