The Plan: Take your Denison diploma and head out, away from the Hill, toward a profession or graduate school, and then on to a fulfilling career and life of impact.
For some, there’s a direct path from that first job after graduation to the corporate boardroom. For others, though, there’s a more complex professional journey, filled with twists and turns along the way.
In both cases, a Denison education provides the advantage. Denisonians say that important skills such as leading, problem solving, writing and speaking are the tools they acquired as undergraduates. In addition, the ability to organize, analyze, work across differences and influence others are indispensable strengths they developed at Denison.
It is no coincidence that today’s Denison grads, equipped with so many crucial tools, are among the nation’s most successful professionals. Whether they enter careers in the arts or sciences or humanities, and whether they work in the private of public sector, they carry with them the skills and confidence to excel.
And it’s no coincidence, either, that Denison has prepared its graduates so well. The curriculum is intentionally designed to develop capabilities in creativity, research and critical thinking, and Denison has long been committed to offering the best in career-launch programs. In fact, with the wealth of highly successful and deeply loyal alumni who are willing to help the next generation of DU grads in their career development and professional networking, there is a value added at Denison that is quite rare in higher education today.
This brief video features just a few of our proud and successful alumni expressing their thoughts about why they’ve been able to accomplish so much in their careers.
Denisonians are innovative, curious and resilient; qualities that sustain them through a lifetime of significance in their personal, professional, and civic lives. As Laurel Kennedy, Denison vice president for student development says, “Our commitment is to prepare students not merely for an entry-level job, but for a long life of meaningful contribution to their communities and their workplaces.”
Want to dig a bit deeper? Explore “The Denison Advantage.” This feature tracks the success of Denison alumni within their first six months after Commencement. It paints quite a picture of how well prepared our graduates really are immediately following graduation. In addition, you can get a glimpse of what Denison has to offer in the way of career preparation, graduate and professional school placement, internship programs, and career-launch programs, by checking out the Career Center and the “Denison Internship Program.”