From joining world-renowned graduate programs to launching careers at leading companies, the inaugural undergraduate Class of 2022 moved on to great things after leaving Duke Kunshan University.
The study and work destinations of the 234 students who graduated last May from the four-year bachelor’s degree program are presented in the Duke Kunshan University Undergraduate Inaugural Class of 2022 Career Report.
Some 82 percent pursued graduate study — overwhelmingly at the world’s highest-ranked universities — and 15 percent took up employment, while the remainder engaged in activities such as volunteering and entrepreneurship.
Highlights of the report by DKU Career Services include:
• Six students were accepted into some of the world’s most prestigious scholarship and fellowship programs: Rhodes at Oxford University, Schwarzman at Tsinghua University, Yenching at Peking University, the National Science Foundation and Erasmus Mundus.
• The cohort received more than 330 offers for graduate study from Top 10 and Ivy League universities in the United States, including Duke, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and Stanford. The likes of Cambridge, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological also made offers.
• Students secured job offers from employers such as Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, McKinsey and Company, Microsoft, Tencent and the World Health Organization. The highest reported salary was RMB 950,000 (USD 138,000).
The full report can be viewed here:
As a truly international learning experience rooted in the liberal arts and sciences tradition, Duke Kunshan prepares students not just for careers in specific fields but for professional, intellectual and societal leadership roles across the globe.
DKU was founded in 2013 as a joint-venture partnership between Duke University, Wuhan University and the city of Kunshan.
Read more about the Class of 2022 and their achievements below:
DKU comes of age with first undergrad class commencement
Wanying He, Class of 2022, named DKU’s first Schwarzman Scholar
Two students accept scholarships to prestigious Yenching Academy
Ege Kaan Duman, Class of 2022, named DKU’s first Rhodes Scholar
Peter Ballentine wins U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Milk tea to McKinsey: how two friends launched their careers
The Class of 2022’s DKU legacy: 234 original research projects
