Career Services & Student Employment
Unlock Your Future
Develop career readiness through exploration of majors, career paths, and experiential learning such as internships, co-ops, and on-campus student employment, as well as part-time and full-time jobs.
Learn more about how to connect through events offered by Career Services & Student Employment!
Handshake is UA’s networking and job board. Students and alumni can schedule appointments with their Career Services advisor and access other career resources, and employers can connect with students and alumni to find excellent talent.
Connect with UA students and alumni through posting internships, co-ops, and jobs on Handshake, attending on-campus career fairs and networking events, hosting career events, and interviewing on campus.
Connect with Career Services to explore career paths, have your resume reviewed, do a mock interview, and prepare for your job search.
Collaborate with Career Services to cultivate a shared culture of career development for our UA students.
Want to work on campus as a student employee? Explore ZIPS@WORK part-time, on-campus jobs to earn money while gaining new skills.
Career Outcomes
We survey our spring graduates every year to determine their career outcomes. In addition to the Career Outcomes rate, we feature the Experiential Learning Rate and Average Starting Salary.
89%
UA's overall placement rate for Spring 2024 graduates.
Within six months, 89% of spring 2024 undergraduate degree recipients were employed full- or part-time, participating in a program of voluntary services, serving in the U.S. Armed Forces or continuing their education.
87%
Students that earned a bachelor’s degree participated in at least one experiential learning experience before graduating.
Experiential learning includes internships, co-ops, practicums, assistantships, on-campus student employment, student teaching, undergraduate research, field experiences, clinicals, volunteer work related to major, and study abroad.
$69,499
The average starting salary of graduates who earned a bachelor’s degree.
Career Outcomes
Career outcome data is based on a survey knowledge rate of 61% of our spring 2024 graduates. Knowledge rate is the percentage of graduates for whom we have reasonable and verifiable information about career activities six months after graduation.