Economics - Life After Fairfield
The majority of students majoring in economics find employment before graduation. Financial and service institutions have been the most popular sources of entry-level jobs. Other graduates have:
- Started out with hospital and government agencies
- Gone into teaching at primary and secondary levels
- Entered management-training programs at Fortune 500 firms
- Continued their studies in graduate or professional schools, including business and law
Alumni list of placements upon graduation include:
- American Express
- American Skandia
- Bank of America
- The Bank of New York
- Chubb & Son
- Citibank
- Deutsche Bank
- Edward Jones
- Environmental Data Resources
- FDIC
- Fidelity Investments
- Gabelli Asset
- Management Company
- General Electric Company (FMP)
- General Electric Company (IMLP)
- Goldman, Sachs & Co.
- Greenwich Capital
- Hewitt Associates LLC
- IBM Corporation
- JPMorganChase
- William M. Mercer, Incorporated
- Merrill Lynch
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
- New England Financial
- Northwestern Mutual Life
- People's Bank
- Peterson Consulting LP
- State Street Global Advisors
- UBS Warburg
- U.S. Marine Corps Officers Program
- Walt Disney World
- Watson Wyatt & Company
A few of our alumni pursue graduate work either in the law or economics. We have placed students in the following graduate programs in economics:
- Boston College
- Brown University
- Duke University
- Fordham University
- John Hopkins University
- University of Connecticut
- University of Indiana
- University of Iowa
- University of North Carolina
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin
Learn more about how Fairfield's Career Planning Center can support your post-graduate goals, and how Fairfield's tight-knit alumni network can build career and mentoring opportunities that last a lifetime.