Jobs

Our students get great jobs. Where do our graduates go to work right out of school? Of the students who completed their studies most recently, in December of 2007, one went to The Wall Street Journal, two to Dow Jones Newswires, and one each to Bloomberg, Forbes.com, TheStreet.com, and Breakingviews.com. Of these students, more than half had never published an article before studying with us in the BER program.

How do BER students do on the job? Looking at just one prominent publication, BER alumni and interns amassed a total of 17 bylined articles in The Wall Street Journal alone during the week of June 23 to June 28, 2007.

Studying business journalism at NYU provides many career opportunities. You can't beat the location. New York is the capital of business journalism, and we expose students to top professionals in the city through our weekly speakers program and through great internships. Our students find that there are many employment opportunities because of the demand for people who can write with understanding about business and economics. Starting salaries for BER alumni are typically in the low $40's to the mid-$70's, compared to the average of $28,000 for journalism graduates nationwide going into newspaper jobs (Cox Center survey, Grady College, 2005).

The following is a list of the first jobs that students have received upon leaving the program in Business and Economic Reporting: