Students often find employment in government, private industry and the non-profit sector.
Many work as managers, sales and customer service representatives, criminologists, parole officers, counselors, demographers, urban planners, policy analysts, media and public relations specialists, and health care providers, especially with the elderly. A recent survey of our own department graduates indicates a wide range of employment. Students who excel in computers can easily use their applied sociological skills in any office setting or own business. One student major is managing her family's jewelry business and helping it expand nationally by computerizing the firms day to day affairs and another is a technical support representative for a computer company. Many graduates, of course, go on to graduate school in specific fields of interests like education, law, teaching and sociology.