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After finance and consulting, education clocked in as the third most-popular field, drawing 13.7 percent of graduates planning to enter the workforce, likely reflecting the recruiting success of programs such as Teach for America, which reported last month that 17 percent of this year’s class had applied to its two-year teaching program...
...uptick comes as the broader U.S. economy shows signs of recovery following last year’s devastating financial crisis, but the figure still marks a drop from 2007, when 73.2 percent of such graduates had finalized employment plans by the time they left the Yard...
...high-paying finance and consulting sectors, which just three years ago hired 47 percent of seniors intending to work right after graduation, came in comparatively low at 30.52 percent, though that figure represents a rise from 20 percent last year, when companies slashed hiring levels as Wall Street grappled with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression...
...percentage of seniors planning to work this year also rose slightly from 59.7 percent to 61.4 percent, while the proportion applying to graduate school fell by a corresponding amount from 24.6 to 22.9, though these changes were not statistically significant. Last year saw an increase in students headed for graduate school and a decrease in the number looking for jobs, as seniors faced the bleakest employment prospects in recent memory...
...plurality of Harvard seniors said they would choose to work in public service if not burdened by financial concerns, with 16.86 percent indicating it as their “dream” field, while 13.95 percent indicated their interest in the artse. Just 4 percent of seniors planning to work next year said they would actually end up in the arts. 11 percent of the class said the same of public service...