2013 Alumni Employment Data

August 30, 2013 (Data: Fall 2008 – May 16, 2013)

Undergraduates by the numbers…

Total BA/BS alumni: 387

Graduate School: 33 (8.5%)

Employed: 233 (60.2%)

Unemployed: 4 (1.1%)

Unknown: 117 (30.2%)

Underemployed: 11 (4.7%) * Reported as employed but self-declared to be underemployed

Revised 04/23/2014

Private Industry: 156 (67%)

Non-profit 15 (6.4%)

Government: 23 (9.9%)

Academia/Education: 28 (12%)

Entrepreneurs: 11 (4.7%)

Undergraduate Employment

67%

6%

10%

12% 5%

Private Industry

Non-Profit

Government

Academia/Education

Entrepreneurs

BA/BS Employment by Sector

Undergraduate Employment

46% of employed undergraduates

have jobs directly related to

sustainability – with either

sustainability in the title or

working for a sustainability

focused organization.

Notable Jobs from recent

Graduating Classes (BA/BS) • Abeinsa EPC – GHG Engineer

• ADEQ – Hazardous Waste Compliance

Officer

• Alpin Limited – Sustainability Consultant

• Coconino County Board of Supervisors

- Assistant to the Chairman of the Board

• Devcon – Field Engineer

• EcoScraps – Sales Associate

• En Power Group – Energy Analyst

• Ocular Solar Design – Site Designer

• REEis Inc. - Home Performance Analyst

• Solar City Solar – Solar Consultant

• Stericycle - Healthcare Sustainability Spcl

• US Digital Media - Project Coordinator

• Verengo Solar – Solar Consultant

• Waste Management – Project Manager

Graduates by the numbers…

Total MA/MS alumni: 45

Graduate School: 9 (20%)

Employed: 33 (73%)

Unknown: 3 (7%)

Private Industry: 7 (21%)

Non-profit 7 (21%)

Government: 6 (18%)

Academia/Education: 11 (34%)

Entrepreneurs: 2 (6%)

Graduate Employment

21%

21%

18%

34%

6% Private Industry

Non-Profit

Government

Academia/Education

Entrepreneurs

MA/MS Employment by Sector

Graduate Employment

82% of employed master’s

graduates have jobs directly

related to sustainability – with

either sustainability in the title or

working for a sustainability

focused organization.

City of Avondale - Environmental

Program Manager

Confluence/Portland BES -

Community Urban Forest

Coordinator

Marymount College -

Sustainability Officer

Sustainable Apparel Coalition -

Member Services Coordinator

US Airways – Senior Analyst

Notable Jobs from recent

Graduating Classes (MA/MS)

Total PhD alumni: 9

Employed: 9 (100%)

Arizona State University

ASU, Sustainability Solutions

CONABIO

Illinois State University

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Portland State University

San Juan ULTRA

State University of New York

Sustainability Consortium

PhD Graduates by the numbers

What employers are hiring our alumni?

Abeinsa EPC

Argonne National Laboratory

Arizona Dept. Of Environmental

Quality

ASU, Sustainability Solutions

City of Phoenix

Coconino County

Eco Aluminum Pallets

First Investors Corporation

First Solar

Gila River Indian Community

Goldman, Sachs & Company

Green Harvest Group

Heliae Development LLC

IO Data Centers

Kyocera Solar, Inc.

Liberty Mutual

Mendocino County CDC

National Marine Fisheries

OSF Merchant Banking

PayPal

Pepsi

Salt River Project

Solar City

Stericycle

United States Environmental

Protection Agency

Verengo Solar

VF Sportswear

Walmart

Waste Management

Zito Financial

Graduate schools our alumni are attending

American University

Arizona State University

Goucher College, MD

Harvard University

Lancaster University, UK

London School of Economics

McGill University

Pepperdine University

Pontificia Universidad Católica de

Valparaíso, Chile

Rutgers University

University of British Columbia

University of California, Los

Angeles

University of Crete, Greece

University of Denver

University of Kansas

University of Miami

University of Minnesota

University of Sydney

What job titles do our alumni hold?

Assistant Professor

Community Urban Forest Coordinator

Energy Analyst

Energy and Environmental Analyst

Environmental Compliance Coordinator

GHG/Quality Engineer

Group Sustainability Specialist

Home Performance Analyst

Inside Sales Manager

Manager of Research and Development

Performance Engineer

Project Lead

Project Scientist

Research & Business Development Manager

Senior Analyst

Senior Manager Sustainability

Senior Sustainability Policy Advisor

Solar Consultant

Solar Specialist

Sustainability Analyst

Sustainability Consultant

Sustainability Coordinator

Sustainable Logistics Consultant

Total Recycling Program Manager

What is the geographic distribution?

Out of the 266 jobs that our bachelor’s and

master’s graduates hold –

192 or 72% are located in Arizona.

Out of the 138 sustainability-related

jobs that our bachelor’s and master’s

graduates hold –

94 or 68% are located in Arizona.

What is the geographic distribution?

Other states and locations represented include:

• Colorado

• Florida

• Idaho

• Illinois

• Indiana

• Louisiana

• Maine

• Maryland

• Michigan

• Minnesota

• New Jersey

• New Mexico

• New York

• Ohio

• Pennsylvania

• South Carolina

• Texas

• Utah

• Virginia

• Washington

• Washington, DC