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For the first time in history, the Office of Student Affairs of Seoul National University recently released the career path its 43,694 graduates took. According to the analysis, professor has been the most popular job among SNU graduates for the last 28 years, with 14.4 percent, or 6,295 people becoming academics. The second favorite workplace was the medical sector, where 11.8 percent of graduates are currently working, and the third place went to the legal profession with 7.8 percent. Following the top three were civil servants and teachers, with 5.2 and 5 percent of graduates.
Among the 3,441 graduates working in law, only 62.3 percent or 2,142 graduates came from the College of Law. Of those who did not, 10.8 percent, or 373 people, graduated from the Department of Business Administration, and 5.6 percent, or 193 people, from the Department of Economics. One oddity was a strong presence of engineering graduates in the legal profession. The departments of electrical, mechanical aerospace and chemical and biological engineering respectively produced 53, 42, and 29 graduates in the legal profession. The College of Engineering stands fourth after the colleges of law (2,142 graduates), business administration (373 graduates), and social sciences (318 graduates) producing graduates that pursued a legal career.
Some 2,261 graduates or 5.17 percent of the total were civil servants. Law graduates had the largest presence, with 478 people, or 21.1 percent. Economics majors came second with 297 graduates, and third place went to the graduates of the Graduate School of Public Administration with 145 people. The Department of Business Administration and the Department of Political Science followed with 125 and 78 people respectively.
Among graduates working at universities as professors, 15.8 percent were graduates of the College of Medicine with 997 people. However, with the number of departments combined, it was the College of Engineering that produced the highest number of academics among colleges with 1,677. Some 510 people from the Department of Electrical Engineering and 339 people from the Department of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering became professors. The Department of Civil & Environment Engineering produced 177 professors, and the Department of Material Science and Engineering 149. Also, 147 graduates from the Department of Architecture are working in academia.
Graduates from colleges and departments with an obvious career path after graduation mostly followed it. Among the graduates of the College of Law, 67.3 percent work in the legal sector, and 46 percent of College of Education graduates, or 1,721 out of 3,738, are now middle or high school teachers. A quarter of 2,094 electrical engineering graduates are professors, and 299 are in research institutes of private companies. Some 159 graduates are now working in manufacturing industry, 149 in engineering and planning, and 145 in telecommunication.
But major and job did not always match. For example, it was not the Department of Communication but the Department of Sociology that produced the most graduates working in journalism. Out of 1,420 SNU graduates working as journalists, 100 are sociology majors, and 96 are communication graduates. The Department of Political Science came a close third with 93 people, and the Department of Economics came fourth with 90.
There were 168 people -- 0.4 percent of the total number of graduates -- who were politicians. The Department of Economics saw the most number of graduates in this field with 34 people, and law graduates came second with 20. Business majors, political science majors, and international relations majors followed with 13, 12, and 10.
In case of the Department of Business Administration, out of 2,404 people who responded to the survey, 685 people, or 28.5 percent, went to work in the financial market. A considerable 13.8 percent, 331 graduates, went into law, and 147 people became professors. Among the 3,738 graduates from the College of Education, many took up different paths: 14.66 percent of them or 548 graduates teach at universities, and 161 are civil servants, 121 people went to work in journalism, and 89 of them work at private institutes.
SNU plans to launch SNU School Game, an online game developed based on the career statistics where students can experience the life of students, on the SNU online community SNULife (www.snulife.co.kr) on May 1.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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