EMU offers a faith-based liberal arts education that encourages students to serve and lead in a global context. Whether their paths lead to full-time employment, service work or graduate school, EMU grads are making changes in the world and growing in their faith.

Our office of career services offers a variety of services to current students and alumni as well, via individual appointments, workshops, classroom presentations and resources in our Career Resource Center, located in the student life offices in University Commons (see campus map).

Stop by to learn more about career exploration, job search preparation, graduate school and further study, life after college, and what to look for in an employer. Search the online catalog of career resources to see what we have available. We look forward to assisting you during your college years and beyond!

Attention 2008 Graduates (and August/December 2007): Complete this year's placement report!

Placement Rate*

How do graduates fare after leaving EMU? Our three-year average placement rate of graduates is 99%, with a whopping 90% of graduates employed within their own field of study within one year of graduation! In 2007, 100% of graduates were placed within that time. And, during the past five years 95% of EMU education grads (some years, more) were employed upon graduation!

EMU's High Graduation Rate

When it comes to the numbers of success, EMU's six-year graduation rate (a common benchmark for measuring the success of students) is much higher than that of other private colleges in the southeast. 71% of EMU first-year students graduate within six years; the national average graduation rate is 53% and the Virignia state average is 56.7. The corresponding rate among private colleges in the southeast was 49% in 2007.*

In 2009 EMU tied with two other schools for fifth place in the regional "very competitive" category in a study of graduation rates nationwide by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.**

*Placement and graduation rates, taken from the EMU Factbook, represent 2005-2007 and were updated in March 2009.
**According to the Council of Independent Colleges' report of member institution graduation rates as collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.