Post-Graduation Survey Results 2013 College of Fine Arts

School of Design Undergraduate

EMPLOYERS AND JOB TITLES Employer Job Title City State

AppMesh Inc. User Experience Designer San Francisco CA Sodiumpartners Designer Seoul Korea Microsoft User Experience Designer Midland MI HarperCollins Publishers (Children's Book Design Department) Design Assistant New York NY

The College People Creative Director Pittsburgh PA IBM UX Designer Austin TX IBM Software Product Designer Austin TX IBM UX Designer Austin TX Microsoft User Experience Designer Redmond WA Microsoft User Experience Designer Redmond WA Facebook Product Designer Menlo Park CA Pebble Industrial and Interaction Designer San Francisco CA LinkedIn Associate User Experience Designer Mountain View CA Google, YouTube User Experience Designer San Bruno CA Washington DC MotionPoint Web Engineer Coconut Creek FL R/GA Associate Experience Designer New York NY Project Aura Co-Founder Pittsburgh PA The PNC Financial Services Experience Designer Pittsburgh PA Product Lexicon Junior Designer Pittsburgh PA IBM UX Designer Austin TX IBM UX Designer Austin TX Artefact Designer Seattle WA Code and Theory Creative Strategist New York NY Opower UX Design Intern San Francisco CA UPMC Product Analyst Intern Pittsburgh PA Phillips Industrial Design Intern Pittsburgh PA

SALARIES

Major Maximum Minimum Mean Median Communication Design $72,000 $31,000 $58,333 $72,000 Industrial Design $115,000 $65,000 $88,600 $93,000

Communication Design 3 salaries reported, Industrial Design 5 salaries reported

EMPLOYMENT BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Region Number of Graduates Percentage Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) 3 11% Mid-Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV) 7 26% Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) 5 19% West (CA, HI, NV) 6 22% Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN) 1 4% Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) 1 4% Northwest (AK, CO, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY) 3 11% International 1 4%

GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SELECTED

Institution Program Degree Parsons The New School for Design Design Studies Master of Arts

2013 SUMMARY OF DESIGN UNDERGRADUATE POST GRADUATION PLANS

Total Graduates Employed Graduate School Not Seeking Return to Home Country

Seeking No Response

38 28 1 1 1 7 0

Source: Post-graduation data compiled from graduating seniors with a 100% response rate among all graduates. This report was finalized on August 9, 2013 Note: All professional experiences are listed. Some recent graduates chose not to provide an employer and/or job title with their response.

Post-Graduation Survey Results 2013 College of Fine Arts

School of Design Graduate

EMPLOYERS AND JOB TITLES Employer Job Title City State Beckman Coulter Intern Brea CA Carnegie Mellon University Multimedia Designer Pittsburgh PA GE Commercial Product Manager Houston TX Google User Experience Designer Mountain View CA Groupon Summer Engineering Intern Palo Alto CA IBM Software Product Design Austin TX IBM Software Product Design Austin TX IBM Software Product Design Weston CT LinkedIn User Experience Designer Mountain View CA Microsoft UX Designer Seattle WA Microsoft, Windows User Experience Designer Redmond WA Microstrategy User Experience Designer Tysons Corner VA Mozilla Design Engineer New York NY RGA Associate Experience Strategist NYC NY Roundarch Isobar Senior User Experience Designer Boston MA Software Engineering Institute Information/UX designer Pittsburgh PA SZABIST Assistant Professor Karachi Pakistan Tagged, Inc. Interaction Designer San Francisco CA TechBridgeWorld User Research Lead Bangalore India UPMC Technology Development Center Intermediate Designer Pittsburgh PA

SALARIES

Major Maximum Minimum Mean Median Communication Planning and Information Design $90,000 $74,000 $81,347 $79,040 Interaction Design $115,000 $52,000 $95,000 $100,000 Product Development (see below)

CPID 3 salaries reported, Interaction Design 7 salaries reported

EMPLOYMENT BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Region Number of Graduates Percentage Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) 4 20% Mid-Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV) 4 20% Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) 3 15% West (CA, HI, NV) 5 25% Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN) 0 0% Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) 0 0% Northwest (AK, CO, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY) 2 10% International 2 10%

2013 SUMMARY OF DESIGN GRADUATE POST GRADUATION PLANS

Total Graduates Employed Graduate School Not Seeking Return to Home Country

Seeking No Response

35 20 0 0 0 15 0

Source: Post-graduation data compiled from graduating students with a 100% response rate among all graduates. This report was finalized on August 9, 2013 Note: All professional experiences are listed. Some recent graduates chose not to provide an employer and/or job title with their response.

Post Graduation Survey Results 2011 – 2013 College of Fine Arts

Master of Product Development (MPD)

EMPLOYERS AND JOB TITLES (COMBINED 3 YEARS) Employer Job Title City State Astrobotics Unknown Pittsburgh PA * Beckman Coulter Intern Brea CA C&D Zodiac (3) Industrial Engineer Santa Maria CA

Design Engineer (2) Los Angeles (2) CA (2)

Delphi Product Engineer Troy MI FlexMedical Design engineer Dallas TX Freelance Unknown Unknown Unknown * General Electric (GE) Commercial Product Manager Houston TX Glaxo Smith Kline Intern Pittsburgh PA * IBM (3) Software Product Design (2) Austin (2) TX (2) Software Product Design Weston CT LinkedIn Associate User Experience Designer Mountain View CA * Microstrategy User Experience Designer Tysons Corner VA Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) Intern Pittsburgh PA Navistar (2) Integrated Product Development Rotational Program Lisle IL

Senior Product Development Engineer Chicago IL

PNC Bank Experience Designer Pittsburgh PA * RGA Associate Experience Strategist New York NY Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Design Engineer/Lab Supervisor Mt. Prospect IL Samsung, Product Innovation Team Senior Staff, Technical Lead Unknown Unknown SAP User Experience Intern Palo Alto CA

* 2013 Graduates

SALARIES combined for 2012 & 2013

Maximum Minimum Mean Median $95,000 $65,000 $83,900 $84,000 Source: Post-graduation data compiled from graduating students with a 95% response rate among all graduates.

**This report was finalized on August 1, 2013 Note: All professional experiences are listed. Some recent graduates chose not to provide an employer and/or job title with their response.