Explore data on the First Destinations of the Classes of 2018 - 2025
Data & Outcomes
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Explore appointment data from 2018 - 2025
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Beyond Barnard Outcomes
91
%
placement in jobs and graduate school, six months after graduation, for the classes of 2018-2025.
1500
+
institutions where the Classes of 2018-2025 were employed or enrolled in graduate school for their first destination
31,000
+
individual advising engagements since January 2018
Your Path. Your Purpose.
Tracking Student & Alumnae Success
Six months after receiving their degree, 91% of Barnard graduates in the Classes of 2018-2025 were working or enrolled in graduate school.
Full information about our graduates is available in our outcomes dashboard, updated annually. Details on our reporting methodologies, along with previous outcomes reports, are available here.
Beyond Barnard is committed to providing transparent information about its services and resources, as well as information about the many destinations of its alumnae. Questions can be sent to beyondbarnard@barnard.edu.
Additional Beyond Barnard Engagement Statistics
- 32,000+ advising engagements at Beyond Barnard since the initiative's launch (Jan 2018-January 2026)
- 7,100+ individuals served by advising (January 2018-January 2026)
- 6,000+ alumnae mentors on Barnard Connect, the College's virtual mentorship platform
- 2,500+ internship grants awarded (January 2016-January 2026)
- 290 Summer Research Institute students (Summer 2025)
- >91% of graduates in the classes of 2018-2025 were employed or enrolled in graduate school six months after graduation
- 66% of currently-enrolled sophomores, juniors, and seniors have completed at least one advising appointment at Beyond Barnard (Fall 2025)
- 200+ external employers and graduate institutions attended 2020, 2021, and 2022 Opportunities Fairs, along with the Fall 2023, Fall 2024, and Fall 2025 Opportunities Conferences
- >77% of Barnard students are estimated to complete an internship during their four years at the College (as of the Fall 2025 all-campus BEAR survey)
Graduate School & Fellowships Success
- In every graduating class fro 2018 through 2025, Columbia University was the most common destination for graduate education among individuals pursuing additional study after Barnard (200+ students in these graduating classes enrolled in Columbia)
- 88% of Barnard students and alumnae with at least a 3.4 GPA and 80th percentile MCAT have been accepted into at least one allopathic (MD) medical school (during the previous five years)
- Barnard has been a “top producer” of Fulbright students for 9 years in a row (as of January 2026)
- Schwarzman Scholars in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025
- Davis Projects for Peace 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022; two projects funded in 2023, 2024
- Goldwater Scholars in 2022, 2023, two recipients in 2024, and two recipients in 2025
- Pickering Fellow (2019); Udall Scholar (2019, 2025); Davis Projects for Peace (2018, 2019, 2025); Gates Cambridge Scholar (2021)
- Critical Language Scholarship (3x in 2019, 3x in 2022)
- Princeton in Asia (2x in 2019, 2022, 2024)
- Princeton in Africa (2023)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program: (4x in 2020, 6x in 2022, 3x in 2023, 5x in 2024)
- Obama Voyager Scholar (2024)