The Kettering University Return on Investment

On a national level, recent college graduates face a job market that is tenuous at best. This is definitely not the case for graduates from Kettering University! Here's why:

• 98% of Kettering graduates are employed or go to graduate school in their fields within six months of graduation.
• Through Kettering's cooperative education program, students gain up to 2 1/2 years of paid, professional experience in their field of study. Kettering partners with over 500 companies and organizations that employ our students in co-op.
• Kettering University is ranked #1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and #7 in Mechanical Engineering in the country among non-Ph.D. granting universities – U.S. News & World Report.
• Kettering students learn in state-of-the-art labs starting in their freshman year. Our students learn "hands-on" from professors -- not from teaching assistants.

Kettering is a nationally-recognized STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Business university and a national leader in combining a rigorous academic environment with rich opportunities for experiential learning and cooperative education. Companies from around the U.S. and world seek out Kettering students because they are trained and prepared to meet the challenges of today's technological industries.   

Employable people in today's competitive work environment need to be skilled at how to network and "market" themselves. Through partipation in the co-op program, Kettering students build resumes that place them well ahead of their peers from other institutions. As students, they are already building a valuable system of contacts in their field and also have multiple ways to network with Kettering’s outstanding alumni population, who are some of the most successful business and manufacturing executives in the country.  The average salary for year 2011 Kettering graduates was $58,698, based on the most recent graduate survey.

This is the Kettering University return on investment!

Learn more at www.kettering.edu.