Grads Get to Work, Some Advance Their Educations
USF’s latest employment survey shows 79 percent of graduates from the Class of 2023 report they are employed, and 13 percent are continuing their education. Three percent are doing both, working and going to school.
The graduates say they participated in a key experience at USF that led to their employment — internships. The survey shows 76 percent landed an average of 2.5 internships while at USF.
The Class of 2023 reports being employed at companies that include: Apple, Boeing, Deloitte, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Genentech, Insomniac Games, J.P. Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, Meta, Qualtrics, Silicon Valley Bank, Stanford Children’s Hospital, Tesla, U.S. Department of State, and UCSF Medical Center.
The average full-time salary for the top five paying majors, according to the survey, are nursing, $130,957; computer science, $102,108; business administration, $78,250; accounting, $77,165; and finance, $75,810.
Tyler John-Nicholas ’23 graduated with a BSBA in accounting and is employed on the tax staff at Crowe LLP in San Francisco. He had internships at Crowe and Andersen while at USF.
John-Nicholas said he chose accounting at USF because he wanted “to develop financial literacy and become a member of the vocal minority of Black CPAs within the U.S.” He is now studying for the CPA exam.
Yliza Kimozave Ortiz ’23 majored in nursing at USF after being her grandmother’s caretaker in the Philippines before moving to the U.S.
Ortiz is now planning to become a physician. She is preparing to take the MCAT exam and will apply to medical schools while she takes prerequisite classes.
“Nursing opened my eyes to the vast number of career paths within health care,” Ortiz said.
While at USF, Ortiz completed a preceptorship at Stanford Hospital’s Adult Emergency Department. “I gained invaluable hands-on experience and further developed my clinical skills,” she said.
Ortiz said her involvement with the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and as a mentor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions inspired her to become a physician.
