Post-Graduation Outcomes

Where can your graduate education lead you? Our graduates—more than 540 master’s alumni and 75 PhD alumni in the last five years alone—show that a computer science degree from UIC positions students for highly compensated industry jobs, sought-after postdoctoral research positions, and tenure-track appointments at universities around the world.

UIC computer science graduate students recently have moved on to:

Industry roles:

  • Accenture
  • Adobe Research
  • Allstate
  • Amazon
  • Amazon Robotics
  • Artificial Solutions
  • Cambria Healthcare
  • Citadel
  • Conversant
  • Discover Financial Services
  • Expedia
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • LGS Innovations
  • Microsoft
  • Morningstar
  • Motorola Solutions
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Nuance Communications
  • Qualcomm
  • Salesforce Research
  • Samsung Research Institute
  • Softlayer (IBM)
  • Solstice
  • Sprout Social
  • Uptake
  • Wayfair
  • Xaptum
  • Yahoo!

Academic positions:

  • Caltech
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Connecticut College
  • Emory University
  • Florida State University
  • Indiana University, Purdue
  • King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia
  • Lehigh University
  • Lewis University
  • LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  • Louisiana State University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Northwestern University
  • Notre Dame
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Houston
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • UIC Department Of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
  • University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • University of Konstanz
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Wisconsin – Madison