Career Paths
Question: What can you do with an engineering degree?
Answer: Anything you want.
Dartmouth engineers apply their problem-solving skills to a wide array of careers and leadership positions.
Some Thayer grads work as professional engineers, while others become:
- company founders
- business leaders
- inventors
- architects
- physicians
- attorneys
- venture capitalists
- research scientists
See how Dartmouth engineers describe projects and careers related to energy, medicine, and the built landscape.
In these and other fields, Dartmouth graduates have a record of success. In fact, they have the Ivy League’s highest median salary 10-20 years out of college.
Our career services office provides information on jobs, industries, and employers. We’ll help you secure the career you want.
You’ll be connected to alums who work at some of the best-known organizations in the world. Many graduates have started their own successful companies. They can be a big help, and they’re a reminder that Dartmouth is more than a school: It’s a community.
Here are just a few of the companies that recently hired Dartmouth engineers.
- Arup
- BMW
- Eaton Corporation
- ExxonMobil
- GE Energy
- Goldman Sachs
- McKinsey & Company
- Intel
- Microsoft
- Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Proctor & Gamble
- Raytheon
- Smart Mobility
Brian Mason ’03
Th’04, ’05 and his colleagues at the design firm
IDEO created the
Aquaduct and won Google’s Innovate or Die contest.
