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A Sarah Lawrence degree opens doors to meaningful, lifelong careers. The outcomes below provide data that reflect what we consistently hear from our alumni: Sarah Lawrence graduates successfully pursue a wide range of careers and enroll in graduate programs at higher-than-average rates compared with our peers.
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Class of 2024: First Destination

What happens right after graduation for most Sarah Lawrence students? They move quickly into jobs and graduate school, immediately putting their education to work.

  • 86%

    Employed or in graduate school

  • 39%

    Employed in Arts, Media & Entertainment

  • 34%

    Employed in Human Services & Education

  • 27%

    Employed in STEM, Business, Law, Government, Advocacy, and Sustainability

Career Outcomes Over the Past 10 Years

Sarah Lawrence alumni work at some of the top companies and organizations across the globe, leading these organizations into the future with the skills and knowledge they gained while at Sarah Lawrence.

Employer Snapshot

Sarah Lawrence alumni use their multidisciplinary education to become leaders in a wide-variety of industries. The College's Career Communities provide strong alumni networks for anyone at any stage. In addition to having an outsized presence in major cultural and media organizations, such as The New York Times, NBCUniversal, and the New York Public Library, many graduates are also entrepreneurs, founding and building their own businesses.

    • American Museum of Natural History
    • Apple TV+
    • Blumhouse
    • Doozer Productions
    • Epic Games
    • HarperCollins Publishers
    • Hearst Magazines
    • Hulu TV
    • Macmillan
    • Manhattan Theatre Club
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • NBCUniversal
    • Netflix
    • The New York Times
    • Paramount Pictures
    • Peacock
    • Penguin Random House
    • SAG-AFTRA
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Whitney Museum of American Art

    • AmeriCorps
    • Clean Water Action
    • Environmental Defense Fund
    • The Goddard School
    • GrowNYC
    • The Morgan Library & Museum
    • National Geographic Society
    • New York Botanical Garden
    • The New York Public Library
    • NYC Department of Education
    • Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic
    • UNICEF

    • ACLU
    • Appellate Advocates
    • The Bronx Defenders
    • Citizen Action of New York
    • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
    • Ellis Porter - The Immigration Attorneys
    • Federal Defenders of New York
    • Human Rights Watch
    • Justice Without Borders
    • National Institute for Workers' Rights
    • New York State Senate
    • Outten & Golden, LLP
    • U.S. Department of Justice
    • U.S. Department of Labor
    • United Nations
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    • White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
    • Workers' Rights Legal Group

    • Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    • Google
    • Greater New York Hospital Association
    • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    • Meta
    • Mount Sinai Beth Israel
    • NARS Cosmetics
    • The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • The National Institutes of Health
    • Nationwide Children's Hospital
    • NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
    • NYU Langone Health
    • Pfizer
    • Weill Cornell Medicine

    • Clean Water Action
    • Environmental Defense Fund
    • GrowNYC
    • National Geographic Society
    • New York Botanical Garden

    • Adobe
    • AIG
    • Airbnb
    • Amazon
    • Apple
    • Axiom
    • BlackRock
    • Bloomberg
    • Business Insider
    • Compass
    • Equitable Advisors
    • The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
    • Goldman Sachs
    • Guggenheim Partners
    • Heck Capital Advisors
    • Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
    • JP Morgan Private Bank
    • KPMG US
    • M&T Bank
    • Mastercard
    • Mattel, Inc.
    • Michael Kors
    • NYC Department of Finance
    • The RealReal
    • Spotify
    • Squarespace
    • Stripe
    • UBS

Salaries at a Glance

Data courtesy of PayScale
  • $67K

    Starting media salary with bachelor's degree

  • $121K

    Mid-career median salary with bachelor's degree

Graduate & Professional School Outcomes Over the Past 5 Years

For many Sarah Lawrence graduates, the next step after college is further study. Within five years of graduation, one-third of our alumni pursue graduate or professional degrees, building on the intellectual foundation and close faculty mentorship they experienced as undergraduates.

Graduate Degrees by Discipline

  • 38%

    Human Services, Social Work, Education & Teaching

  • 21%

    Arts, Writing & Creative Fields

  • 35%

    STEM, Sustainability, Humanities, History, Nonprofit & other

  • 6%

    Law, Public Policy, Business & Management

Graduate, Law & Health Professional Programs Snapshot

Sarah Lawrence graduates are admitted to highly selective programs across disciplines, including top graduate schools, law schools, and health professional programs.

    • Harvard University
    • Stanford University
    • Princeton University
    • Yale University
    • Columbia University
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • University of Chicago
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    • Duke University
    • Northwestern University
    • Brown University
    • University of Michigan
    • Georgetown University
    • University of Southern California (USC)
    • Washington University in St. Louis
    • New York University (NYU)
    • Cornell University
    • University of Washington – Seattle
    • University of California–Santa Cruz

    • Yale Law School
    • Stanford University Law School
    • Columbia University School of Law
    • New York University School of Law
    • University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
    • University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Law)
    • University of Michigan Law School
    • Duke University School of Law
    • Cornell Law School
    • Georgetown University Law Center

    • Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
    • Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
    • Rocky Vista College of Osteopathic Medicine- Montana (DO)
    • Sanford SOM of the Univ of South Dakota (MD)
    • Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (MD)
    • Lincoln Memorial University–DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
    • Chicago Medical School (MD)
    • Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University
    • New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
    • University of Minnesota Medical School (MD)
    • Bastyr University School of Naturopathic Medicine (Naturopathic)
    • State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate School of Health Profession Physical Therapy (PT)
    • Columbia University Doctor of Physical Therapy (PT)
    • New York Medical College (MD)
    • Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
    • Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University (DMV)

Career Preparation: Internships & Experiential Learning

Internships for All

Research consistently shows that students who participate in internships and other experiential learning opportunities are advantaged when seeking full-time employment after graduation, regardless of their field of study. Sarah Lawrence’s Internships for All initiative is a structured, campus-wide program designed to ensure that every undergraduate student has access to and pursues at least one meaningful experiential learning opportunity during their time at the College.

The list below represents the wide ranging and significant internships held by Sarah Lawrence students.

    • A24
    • Agentry PR
    • Amazon
    • American Museum of Natural History
    • Annie Liebovitz Studios
    • Atlantic Records
    • Baboon Animation
    • Brooklyn Museum
    • CBS Sports
    • Center Lane Theatre
    • Christie’s
    • Folio Literary Management
    • Food Network
    • Hachette Book Group USA
    • HBO
    • Hearst Media
    • International Children's Media Center
    • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
    • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
    • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
    • Loft Recording Studio
    • Macmillan Publishers
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • NBCUniversal
    • Netflix
    • New Victory Theatre
    • New York Film Academy
    • New York Public Radio
    • Norwood News
    • Observer
    • Oxford University Press
    • Paradigm Talent Agency
    • Paramount Pictures
    • Penguin Random House
    • Saturday Night Live
    • Shakespeare Theatre Company
    • Simon & Schuster
    • SLAM Media, Inc.
    • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
    • Sony Music Entertainment
    • The New York Times
    • The Wall Street Journal
    • The Walt Disney Company
    • Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
    • United Talent Agency
    • Viacom
    • Warner Music Group
    • W. W. Norton & Company
    • Whitney Museum
    • Writers House Literary

    • Child Mind Institute
    • Community Word Project
    • Harlem Children's Zone (NY)
    • Hearts & Homes for Refugees
    • Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
    • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    • The Morgan Library and Museum
    • My Sisters' Place
    • National Alliance on Mental Illness
    • New York Public Library
    • Sarah Lawrence Early Childhood Center
    • Sarah Lawrence Psychology Summer Research Program
    • Scholastic
    • Story Pirates
    • The Wartburg Adult Care Community

    • United Nations
    • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
    • Brennan Center for Justice
    • The Innocence Project
    • Feminist Press
    • Human Rights Watch
    • International Rescue Committee
    • NYC Mayor's Office
    • NYS Assemblymember Shelley Mayer
    • Office of U.S. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand
    • The White House
    • Her Justice
    • Legal Aid Society
    • The Family Defense Center
    • Urban Justice Center

    • NYU PAVERS
    • Children's Hospital at Montefiore
    • Columbia University Medical Center
    • Hospital for Special Surgery
    • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    • New York Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center
    • NYU Langone Medical Center
    • Code and Theory
    • IBM
    • NYP Westchester Hospital
    • EMT with Sarah Lawrence Campus Safety
    • Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (multiple locations)

    • Bronx Zoo
    • Groundwork Hudson Valley
    • New York Botanical Gardens
    • The Center for the Urban River at Beczak
    • The Climate Museum

    • Citi Bank
    • Credit Suisse
    • Janney Montgomery Scott
    • Time Equities, Inc.
    • UBS

Post-Graduate Resources

Coming Soon

Experiential Learning Center

Set to open in 2026, Sarah Lawrence's new center for experiential learning will bring together all the offices and services that expand the walls of the classroom beyond campus: Career Services, Community Partnerships & Engagement, SLC EmbeddED, and Global Education.

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