Many prospective students are drawn to DePauw because of its positive after-graduation statistics. According to the exit survey taken by the class of 2013, which 75 percent of the class responded to, around 30 percent of the class of 2013 was attending graduate school, 59 percent was employed, and 7 percent had been awarded national fellowships.
Of DePauw’s current 267 international exchange students, Loutfi Jirari, director of international student services, estimates that 60 percent will go on to graduate school, while around 20 percent will remain in the U.S. to work and 20 percent will return to their native country.
These numbers are staggeringly different. The highest percentages gravitate towards very different occupations after undergraduate, with domestic students having greater numbers of employment, while international students trend towards graduate school.
It is difficult to say if this is by choice though.
“There are inherent challenges in the job search when you are an international student,” Jirari said.
Among these challenges are limited career paths, the necessity of visas and sponsorship and even the search for companies willing to hire international students.
“One of the challenges is that international students come under student Visas,” Raj Bellani, dean of experiential learning and career planning, said.
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