What can you do with a graduate degree from EIU?
One of the most difficult questions any graduate program has to answer is what do it's graduates do after graduation. At EIU, we are proud of our tradition. Almost 90% of our graduates return to the work environment putting their new skills to use. The
remaining 10% continue their studies at graduate programs. The links below be useful in answering what a number of our major do after graduation.
- A list of the positions that our graduates currently hold
- A list of Programs that our graduates have gone too
- Some of the institutions our graduates are teaching at
- Listings of graduate programs
- Other Resources
A number of students who complete their master's degree at Eastern choose to continue in a Ph.D. program. Programs that students have gone on to from EIU include:
- University of Denver
- Indiana University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Northwestern University
- University of Oklahoma
- Purdue University
- Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
- West Virginia University
Institutions our graduates are or have taught at*
- University of Denver
- Eastern Illinois University
- Georgia Southern University
- Lake Land Community College
- Lincoln Trails Community College
- Lincolnland Community College
- University of Maryland -- College Park
- University of North Dakota
- Northwestern University
- University of Oklahoma
- Parkland Community College
- Purdue University -- North Central
- Rock Valley community College
- Rockford College
- Southern Illinois University -- Carbondale
- Southern Illinois University -- Edwardsville
- University of Tennessee -- Martin
- Texas Women's University
- University of Virginia
*some have gone on to get a Ph.D. prior to teaching at the institutions above.