Swarthmore Outcomes
Engineering opens a path for developing climate resilient infrastructure in vulnerable communities. Political science and philosophy inspire a student to create policy that makes voting more accessible. Art history, quite naturally, leads to a career in medicine.
When you take a look at the paths our graduates take after Swarthmore, you’ll find they’re not only successful in their chosen fields, they’re testaments to the power – and surprising practicality – of a liberal arts education. Especially one, like Swarthmore’s, that values curiosity, collaboration, and hard work in equal measure.
The examples in this booklet reflect positions held and academic programs attended by recent Swarthmore alumni.
Majors and Programs
Anthropology
Architectural Studies
Asian American Studies
Chemical Physics
Anthropology
Architectural Studies
Asian American Studies
Chemical Physics
Latin
Latin American & Latino Studies
Medical Anthropology
Modern Languages & Literatures
Arabic
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
Berkeley, Calif.
Hogan & Vandenberg
Philadelphia, Pa.
Civil Rights Corps
Washington, D.C.
Brennan Center for Justice
Washington, D.C.
Watermark™
New York City, N.Y.
Art
Whitney Museum of Art
New York City, N.Y.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pa.
Animal Care Society
Louisville, Ky.
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
Berkshire Grey
Bedford, Mass.
Boston Planning & Development Agency
Boston, Mass.
Citigroup
New York City, N.Y.
Art History
Moneo Brock
Madrid, Spain
Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles, Calif.
Wikipedia
San Francisco, Calif.
Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, N.Y.
Royal Crown Law Library Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.
Asian Studies
Japanese Culture Center
Chicago, Ill.
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Goldman Sachs
Syosset, N.Y.
Apple
Karnataka, India
Ministry of Education
Singapore
MullenLowe Group
New York City, N.Y.
Astronomy
Lockheed Martin
Moorestown, N.J.
The Atlantic, Science, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, Wired
Boston, Mass.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
Boulder, Colo.
Brown University
Providence, R.I.
Planet Labs
San Francisco, Calif.
Astrophysics
Wildwood School
Wildwood, N.J.
Technician
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Cambridge, Mass.
Special Olympics International
Washington, D.C.
Biochemistry
Petry Laboratory at Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.
Invitae
San Francisco, Calif.
Fulbright Program
Spain
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Dow Chemical Company
Collegeville, Pa.
Otolaryngology Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Biology
Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development
Durham, N.C.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Ga.
Seattle, Wash.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
Washington, D.C.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Black Studies
New York University
New York City, N.Y.
Spectrum News
Washington, D.C.
Mastercard
New York City, N.Y.
FedEx
Long Island City, N.Y.
Oregon House of Representatives
Salem, Ore.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
Chemistry
Estée Lauder
New York City, N.Y.
Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions
Portland, Ore.
Clinic for Special Children
Strasburg, Pa.
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill.
Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.
Chinese
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Washington, D.C.
Cheng & Tsui
Boston, Mass.
Paul Hastings LLP
Seoul, South Korea
Luna Innovations
Blacksburg, Va.
Sertis
Bangkok, Thailand
Classics
New York City Police Department
New York City, N.Y.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, Pa.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Md.
Workday
Pleasanton, Calif.
Cognitive Science
Google
New York City, N.Y.
Development and Processing Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Cohere.ai
London, United Kingdom
Northeastern University
Boston, Mass.
Exyn Technologies
Philadelphia, Pa.
Comparative Literature
Writing Program at Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.
Flying V Theatre
Bethesda, Md.
Sher Tremonte
New York City, N.Y.
Columbia University
New York City, N.Y.
Flatiron Books
New York City, N.Y.
Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, Calif.
Foundation Medicine
San Diego, Calif.
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, Pa.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Va.
KUNGFU.AI
Austin, Texas
Dance
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.
Dance/NYC
New York City, N.Y.
Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement
Champaign, Ill.
JUNK Dance Company
Philadelphia, Pa.
New York University Medical Center
New York City, N.Y.
Design your own major
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, Calif.
(Major: Education, Race, and Media)
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
(Major: Middle Eastern Studies)
Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco, Calif.
(Major: Gender & Digital Culture)
Rapid Prototyping Lab
School of Engineering & Applied Science University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
(Major: Industrial Design)
BlackRock
Boston, Mass.
(Major: Organizational Behavior)
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colo.
(Major: Psychobiology)
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago, Ill.
(Major: Theories of Decision-Making)
Economics
Tesla
San Jose, Calif.
National Institutes of Health
Washington, D.C.
UCLA Anderson Forecast
Los Angeles, Calif.
International Community Foundation
National City, Calif.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Modern Language Association
New York City, N.Y.
educational studies
New York City Department of Education
New York City, N.Y.
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Boston University
Boston, Mass.
Harlem Children’s Zone
New York City, N.Y.
Bellmont Charter School
Philadelphia, Pa.
Deutsche Bank North America
Cary, N.C.
Austin Public Library
Austin, Texas
Engineering
Garmin International Flight Testing
New Century, Kan.
Philadelphia Water Department
Philadelphia, Pa.
Electronic Arts (EA)
Redwood City, Calif.
Idaho Transportation Department
Lewiston, Idaho
Reykjavík University
Reykjavík, Iceland
Indigo Energy
San Jose, Calif.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, D.C.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
MIT Press
Cambridge, Mass.
Sony Music
New York City, N.Y.
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
San Francisco, Calif.
CBS News
New York City, N.Y.
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, United Kingdom
Slack
San Francisco, Calif.
Environmental Studies
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
Food and Drug Administration
Washington, D.C.
Environmental Defense Fund
New York City, N.Y.
U.S. Forest Service
Glenwood Springs, Colo.
Watson Foundation
New York City, N.Y.
Film & Media Studies
ShoulderHill Entertainment
New York City, N.Y.
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, Pa.
New York City, N.Y.
Tulane University
New Orleans, La.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Los Angeles, Calif.
French & Francophone Studies
Goodwin Procter LLP
Boston, Mass.
CNN
New York City, N.Y.
Columbia University
New York City, N.Y.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
Associated Press
New York City, N.Y.
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Mass.
National Center for Transgender Equality
Washington, D.C.
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals
Philadelphia, Pa
Morgan Stanley
New York City, N.Y.
German Studies
IBM Food Trust
New York City, N.Y.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Oregon Health and Science University Hospital
Portland, Ore.
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, Calif.
Global Studies
Dechert LLP
Philadelphia, Pa.
Goldman Sachs
Salt Lake City, Utah
Chaldal
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Greek
Seward & Kissel LLP
New York City, N.Y.
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, Calif.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
ABC Languages
San Francisco, Calif.
Sometimes that means a professor is deeply interested in your interpretation of the latest reading, so you get to lead next week’s discussion. Or a dean reaches out about a research opportunity because they know what you care about. Or maybe your campus job manager shows you a career path you suddenly find fascinating, and then Career Services is there to help you find an internship in a city you’ve always dreamed of exploring.
The closeness of the Swarthmore community means students, resources, and opportunities are always connected and readily available.
History
Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office
Santa Monica, Calif.
Detroit, Mich.
University of Chicago Press
Chicago, Ill.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Carbonless Asia
Hong Kong, China
Interpretation Theory
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pa.
Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
HIAS Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
New York City, N.Y.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Islamic Studies
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
BBC World Service
London, United Kingdom
University of Rochester
Rochester, N.Y.
Center for Victims of Torture
St. Paul, Minn.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pa.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Japanese
Ogilvy & Mather China
Beijing, China
BNP Paribas
New York City, N.Y.
JET Programme
Washington, D.C.
Malwin Electronics Corporation
Paterson, N.J.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Calif.
Latin American & Latino Studies
Global Exchange
San Francisco, Calif.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Washington, D.C.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Los Angeles, Calif.
AstraZeneca
Gaithersburg, Md.
Linguistics
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.
Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
WGBH
Boston, Mass.
Google
Mountain View, Calif.
Mathematics
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Hermés
New York City, N.Y.
CVC Capital Partners
Singapore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass.
State Street Global Advisors
London, United Kingdom
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.
Medieval Studies
Fordham University
New York City, N.Y.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md.
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, Calif.
Music
Oratorio Society of Queens
Queens, N.Y.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
The International School of Minnesota
Eden Prairie, Minn.
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Orbit Energy & Power
Sewell, N.J.
Portal Instruments
Cambridge, Mass.
Neuroscience
Sparrow Health System
Lansing, Mich.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Mass.
STR
Woburn, Mass.
Washington University
St. Louis, Mo.
Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation
Brunswick, Maine
NYU Neuroscience Institute
New York City, N.Y.
Peace & Conflict studies
SYFY, NBC Universal
New York City, N.Y.
National Grid
Boston, Mass.
Greater Falls Community Justice Center
Bellows Falls, Vt.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York City, N.Y.
ACLU Capital Punishment Project
Durham, N.C.
Philosophy
American Civil Liberties Union
New York City, N.Y.
New York Times Book Review
New York City, N.Y.
University of Massachusetts
Chan Medical School
Worcester, Mass.
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Recorded Future
Washington, D.C.
Physics
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Md.
Nokia
Belleview, Wash.
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, Calif.
Kohelet Yeshiva High School
Merion Station, Pa.
University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Amazon
New York City, N.Y.
Political Science
Bronx Defenders
Bronx, N.Y.
Prometheus Federal Services
Washington, D.C.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
AES Corporation
Hanoi, Vietnam
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.
PSYCHOLOGY
William Way LGBT Community Center
Philadelphia, Pa.
Bank of America
Ichikawa, Japan
NYC Autism Charter Schools
Bronx, N.Y.
Alaska Supreme Court
Fairbanks, Alaska
Polaris Corporate Risk Management
New York City, N.Y.
United States Air Force Malstrom Air Force Base
Cascade County, Mont.
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.
International Baccalaureate Global Centre
The Hague, Netherlands
When you graduate from Swarthmore, you become part of a global community of 20,000+ alumni. Curious, passionate, and eager to connect with fellow Swatties, these global citizens know better than anyone how well-prepared our students are. Learn more about our alumni community at swarthmore.edu/alumni – including ways to connect, network, find affinity groups, attend regional events, or volunteer.
Religion
“60 Minutes” (CBS News)
New York City, N.Y.
Michigan Climate Venture, University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability
Ann Arbor, Mich.
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Agudath Achim Synagogue
Shreveport, La.
Old Cambridge Baptist Church
Cambridge, Mass.
Russian
United States Air Force
Washington, D.C.
Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies
Washington, D.C.
OrderGroove
New York City, N.Y.
Teachers Pay Teachers
New York City, N.Y.
Sociology & Anthropology
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
The Hague, Netherlands
HIAS Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Texas Association of Community Colleges
Austin, Texas
Elmhurst Hospital
Queens, N.Y.
Citigroup
New York City, N.Y.
Spanish
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Ind.
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
New York City, N.Y.
School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pa.
Stanford University
Stanford, Calif.
Craft Worldwide
New York City, N.Y.
University of Massachusetts
Boston, Mass.
Statistics
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Pasadena, Calif.
Minnesota Twins
Minneapolis, Minn.
Uber Eats, Uber Technologies
San Francisco, Calif.
California Legislative Analyst’s Office
Sacramento, Calif.
Under Armour
Baltimore, Md.
Tableau Software
Seattle, Wash.
JPMorgan Chase
New York City, N.Y.
Theater
Walnut Street Theatre
Philadelphia, Pa.
Michigan Nurses Association
Okemos, Mich.
Adult Swim
New York City, N.Y.
West Wing Writers
Washington, D.C.
Sony Music Entertainment
New York City, N.Y.
Amazon
New York City, N.Y.
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito
Quito, Ecuador
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