What Can I Do With A Major In Rhetoric

What Can I Do With a Major In...? Rhetoric Four Year Profile, 2003-2006 More Majors This report profiles the information baccalaureate graduates provided us about their initial career choices following graduation. The primary focus is to provide students interested in this major with examples of the wide variety of employment and graduate school choices past students have made. Therefore, the data are presented as aggregates for the classes of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. For more information on how the survey data was obtained, go to Survey Data Collection. Some percentages detailed in this report may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Response Rates Year Graduated Responded Percent 2003 60 20 33% 2004 56 24 43% 2005 83 27 33% 2006 94 27 29% Total 293 98 33% Activity Summary Year Employed Attending Grad School Seeking Employment Other Endeavors Total 2003 5 (25%) 6 (30%) 4 (20%) 5 (25%) 20 (100%) 2004 7 (29%) 5 (21%) 5 (21%) 7 (29%) 24 (100%) 2005 9 (33%) 4 (15%) 6 (22%) 8 (30%) 27 (100%) 2006 10 (37%) 9 (33%) 2 (7%) 6 (22%) 27 (100%) Total 31 (32%) 24 (24%) 17 (17%) 26 (27%) 98 (100%) Employment Sectors Year For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Total 2003 4 (80%) -- (0%) -- (0%) 1 (20%) 5 (100%) 2004 5 (71%) 1 (14%) -- (0%) 1 (14%) 7 (100%) 2005 6 (67%) 1 (11%) 2 (22%) -- (0%) 9 (100%) 2006 7 (70%) 2 (20%) 1 (10%) -- (0%) 10 (100%) Total 22 (71%) 4 (13%) 3 (10%) 2 (6%) 31 (100%) Employers Employer Title Accenture Analyst Akawie and LaPietra PC Administrative Assistant Alameda County Public Defender's Office Legal Assistant Aon Risk Services Associate Applebees Bartender Boeing Engineer Caltag Laboratories Tissue Culture Technician Cisco Systems Inc On-Site Vendor Lease Administrator Deloitte & Touche LLP Staff Auditor Drug Policy Alliance, Office of Legal Affairs Research Assistant Gordon Rees LLP Case Assistant Law Office of Rosenberg and Link Administrative Assistant Law Offices of James M. Rogers Paralegal Law Offices of Janet L. Dobrovolny Legal Clerk Leyva and Night Law Legal Assistant Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Financial Analyst National Park Service Park Ranger Naumann and Levine, LLP Legal Assistant Princeton Review Assistant Director of Marketing Proteus Air Services Inc Operations Manager Ralph Ehrenpreis Law Corp Case Writer San Francisco Downtown Magazine Editorial Assistant SBC Communications Business Sales Representative The Greenlining Institute Health Policy Program Manager Tiffany & Co Customer Service Representative UC Office of the President Abstracter/Library Assistant United Way Campaign Advisor University of California Berkeley Network Administrator Research Assistant Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro & Schulman LLP File Clerk Salaries Year Reported 75th Percentile Average 25th Percentile Median 2003 5 $32,000 $29,936 $22,800 $29,000 2004 7 $34,750 $29,365 $26,028 $32,000 2005 8 $50,125 $40,987 $28,724 $45,000 2006 10 $39,360 $37,198 $28,080 $35,250 Total 30 $40,000 $35,170 $27,010 $32,750 Graduate Schools Field Degree School City & Regional Planning Masters University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing Other San Francisco State University Education Masters Stanford University Other California State University-Chico Education, Elementary Masters University of California-Davis Fine Arts Masters University of Southern California Law JD Case Western Reserve University Harvard University Pepperdine University San Francisco School of Law University of California-Davis University of California-Hastings College of Law University of California-Los Angeles University of San Francisco Medical Science MD Northwestern University Pharmacology Masters Tulane University of Louisiana Pre-Medicine Masters New York University Public Policy Studies Masters Harvard University Religion Masters Fuller Theological Seminary Rhetoric PhD University of California-Berkeley