Job Outcomes
BSJ Class of 2024
98% of graduates* were employed within six months of graduation
Types of employment include full-time and part-time positions, fellowships, internships and freelance
Type of Jobs
Our graduates are employed in a variety of fields, both in journalism jobs and other types of roles.
News Reporting and Writing: 25.3%
Comms, PR, Marketing: 19.2%
Business and Law: 19.2%
Audio/Video Production: 7.5%
Digital: 6.2%
Sports Journalism: 5.5%
Further Study: 8.9%
Locations of Jobs
Chicago Area: 27.4%
New York Area: 23.3%
Washington, D.C. Area: 6.2%
California: 6.2%
Other - U.S.: 33.6%
International: 3.4%
Sample Companies of Employment
A list of the different employers of Medill grads around the world. They include prominent print, digital and broadcast outlets.
- 42West
- Adobe
- American Express
- American Heart Association
- American Institute of Physics
- AmeriCorps
- Apple
- AsAmNews
- August Jackson
- Big Ten Network
- Blackstone
- Bloomberg
- Bloomberg Industry Group
- Borderless Magazine
- Boston Consulting Group
- Boutique Marketing Agency
- Burrell Communications
- Burson
- Business Insider
- Candlewick Press
- CBS News
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Chapman and Cutler LLP
- Chicago Sports Network
- CNBC
- Columbia Business School
- CR Fashion Book
- Creative Artists Agency
- Deloitte
- Deutsche Bank
- Dotdash Meredith
- Driehaus Capital Management LLC
- Duke University
- Edleman
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Energy BBDO
- Evercore
- FARN
- Fast Company
- Foreign Policy
- Gasthalter & Co. LP
- Goldman Sachs
- Good Morning America
- Goodby Silverstein & Partners
- Groupon
- GTCR
- Harvard Divinity School
- Hawaiʻi ʻUlu Cooperative
- Hearst
- High Plains Reader
- Huron
- ICT
- Imagine Entertainment & Television
- Impact Soccer
- In These Times
- Intrinsic Schools
- Ipsos
- JAMA
- Kearney
- Kekst CNC
- Kellogg School of Management
- KGW-TV
- Kinsey Labs
- KNOX Capital
- LOCAL Life Media Group
- Marquee Sports Network
- Michigan Democratic Party
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Momentum ITSMA
- MS at Georgetown University
- mvpsportstalk.com
- NBC News
- Newbury Partners
- NHL.com
- Nichols and Pina LLLP
- North American Language and Culture Assistants Program
- Northwestern University
- NVIDIA
- Pebble Community Labs
- PEOPLE Magazine
- PepsiCo
- Perfect Game
- PIRG
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- POLITICO
- Raymond James
- Revolution
- Rise Strategy Group
- Rock Fusco & Connelly
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Savanta
- Sciences Po
- Self-Help Federal Credit Union
- Sierra Club
- Spectrum Equity
- Statesman Journal / Gannett
- Teneo
- The Hill
- The Journal Times
- The Minnesota Reformer
- The New Yorker
- The Sporting News
- The Spruce / DotDash Meredith
- The University of New Mexico
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- The White House
- TNT Sports
- Total Quality Logistics
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Senate
- UChicago Booth School of Business
- University of Oxford
- USC Gould School of Law
- Variety
- Virginia Living
- Volo Restaunt Wine Bar
- Wasserman Rights Sales
- Weber Shandwick
- Wichita Wind Surge
- Willamette Week
- William Blair
- WIN Home Inspection
- Wisconsin State Journal
- World Soccer Talk
- WSLS 10
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*Data is based on the graduates for whom we know their employment status (149/155 graduates). Data is based on the first job students obtained after graduation. Sources of data include self-reported, LinkedIn, Twitter and company websites. Types of employment include full-time positions, fellowships, internships and freelance. Percentages are rounded.