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Job and Graduate School Placements and Career Outlook Information

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Recent Job and Graduate School Placements from the HSU Department of Economics
Employers
A 2003 survey of the alumni of the Department of Economics indicates that our former students go on to jobs in banking, finance, and real estate, government (county, state, federal), consulting firms, education, the energy and telecommunications industries, and the non-profit sector.

The list below offers some examples of job placements from the last few years:
  • A.G. Edwards
  • Arzu Inc (Afghan "fair trade" style rug company)
  • Barron Mortgage
  • CalTrans Right of Way Division
  • City Light & Power
  • City of Sacramento Planning Department
  • City of South Lake Tahoe Planning Department
  • Cognos, Inc.
  • Co-Optimum
  • Countrywide Financial
  • County of Humboldt (Economic Development Division)
  • Deloitte and Touche
  • Edward Jones (several placements)
  • Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
  • First Franklin
  • First Independent Bank
  • Fisher Investments, Inc.
  • Food and Agriculture, Department of; State of California
  • FNC (Read HSU Economics alumni James Counts' description of how the Economics major helped him in the job market)
  • Full Spectrum Lending
  • General Motors Acceptance Corporation
  • Humboldt State University
  • Legislative Analyst's Office, State of California (fiscal and policy analyst)
  • Liga Nacional Baloncesto Profesional (Mexican professional basketball league)
  • Los Angeles County Office of Education
  • Merrill Lynch (several placements)
  • Mervyns
  • MGM Studios (financial analyst)
  • Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  • Motive Advertising
  • Newcomb Anderson McCormick (SF Energy Consulting Firm)
  • U.S. Navy (civilian position)
  • Norstar Securities International, Ltd.
  • Onyx Software
  • ORC Worldwide
  • Pacific Growth Equities
  • Pacific Lumber Company
  • Pacific Municipal Consultants
  • Planwest Partners
  • Raymond James Financial Services
  • Ravalli County (MT) Planning Department
  • Rick Bailey Mortgage Unlimited
  • San Jose State University Budget Office
  • Silicon Graphics Corporation
  • SRI Mortgage
  • Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
  • Umpqua Bank/Humboldt Bank
  • Unisys Corporation
  • US Bank
  • U.S. Department of Justice (Economic Analysis Group, Antitrust Division)
  • West Coast Window Company
  • Westin Palo Alto
  • Wyeth-Ayerst
  • Yahoo!
Graduate Programs:
A 2003 survey of the alumni of the Department of Economics indicates that 45 percent of our baccaureates go on to graduate or professional school. Here are some examples from the last few years:
  • Economics at UC Davis
  • Economics at University of Oregon
  • Economics at UC Irvine
  • Economics at the University of New Mexico (recipient of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation doctoral fellowship at the Center for Health Policy at UNM)
  • Economics at UC Santa Barbara
  • Economics at Georgia State University
  • Resource Economics at UC Berkeley
  • Economics at Cal State Hayward
  • Urban Planning at Columbia
  • Community Development at UC Davis
  • Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
  • Economics, and International and Development Economics, at the University of San Francisco
  • Energy, Environment, and Society MS at Humboldt State University
  • MBA at UC Irvine
  • Golden Gate University School of Law
  • Cleveland Marshall Law School
Internships and Other Placements:
  • Amnesty International UK
  • California Integrated Waste Management Board
  • Center for Environmental Economic Development
  • Conservation Strategy Fund
  • Forest Community Research
  • Index of Economic Activity for Humboldt County
  • Klamath Watershed Institute
  • NetApp (San Francisco)
  • Office for Economic and Community Development (HSU)
  • Planwest Partners
  • Strategic Energy Innovations
  • Umpqua Bank
  • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/Development Alternatives, Inc, Tanzania
  • U.S. Olympics, Salt Lake City
Careers for Economists:
In addition to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, you can learn about careers for economists by clicking here to access a career guide for economists produced by South-Western/Thomson Learning. You can also click here to access a career guide for economists produced by McGraw-Hill Higher Education.