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Mark Mineart ’12

Cory Cunard ’13

Dan Locker ’13

Taylor Hoekstra ’13

Outdoor adventure instructor at a church camp. Teaches teens to be leaders.

Graduated a semester early. Headed to Air Force officer training.

Med student, University of Iowa. Spent summers doing paid research with NWC biology profs.

Paralegal. Applying to law schools. Formerly NWC’s student government president.

Expect big

things

r life. And it should get you College should be the time of you estern, we can prepare you ready for the rest of it. At Northw memorable college years for a great job. We can also deliver rter, more enthusiastic during which you’ll become a sma for a fulfilling career—and follower of Christ. We’ll prepare you a faithful life.

believe and

Achieve

A Northwestern education leads to gre

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ortunities.

Students get personal attention in small classes taught by PhDs with notable degrees. They also have more opportunity than students at large universities for résumé-building involvement like participating in spo rts, music and theatre. Interning and studying off campus. Serving and volunteering. And joining and lead ing campus clubs and organization s.

Northwestern alumni are living and 15,000 the working all over world.

Among them are:

The founder of Exemplar Genetic s, which is working on a cure for cystic fibrosis A former Secret Service agent— one of 36 women on a force of 2,000 A Fulbright Scholar studying the A Disney Channel cartoon writer

Dead Sea Scrolls

and producer An athletic trainer with the Indiana polis Colts A missionary nurse with Mercy Ship s Numerous award-winning teachers The mayor of Holland, MI A New York playwright

80% of Northwestern science graduates who app

ly to medical school are accepted on their first try. (In 2013, the national medical school matriculation rate for all applican ts was 42%.)

The first-time board exam pass rate for Northwestern’s athletic training majors is 93% (compared to 81% nationally). Our BSN-credentiale d nursing graduates’ first-time pass rate is 92%, compared to 89% nationally.

make it

work

rage, are employed, in 96% of Northwestern alumni, on aveeducation within six graduate school or continuing their months of graduation. training, etic 100% placement* include art, athl Majors that consistently achieve finance, teaching, business (agri-business, biology-ecological science, biology ry, mist che options), business education, human resources and marketing h, mat , rmation systems, English teaching computer science/computer info . nish Spa tions, religion/youth ministry, and music/music ministry, public rela ent loym seek of the last 3 years by students *100% placement in at least 2 ol scho uate grad to or applying

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RECENT JOB PLACEMENTS

ic, Club Energize, AXA Equitable, IBM, FDIC, JP Morgan, Mayo Clin ories, Pella Corporation, Sharp Laborat Sanford Health, Guthrie Theater, up, ial Services, Principal Financial Gro Prime Therapeutics, Lutheran Soc , Rift Valley Academy in Kenya Homeland Security Policy Institute

ENTS RECENT GRAD SCHOOL PLACEM University of Southern California Med School

Ben-Gurion University in Israel

Arizona State

College of William and Mary Law School School of the Art Institute of Chicago

DigiPen Institute of Technology

Brown University

University of North Carolina

Princeton Theological Seminary

Texas Christian University

University of Iowa Baylor University Duke University Vanderbilt UCLA

, uates are succeeding after college To learn more about how NWC grad ccess visit www.nwciowa.edu/su

Our graduates’ résumés often include experiences that set them apart from other applicants:

Career

n Studying off campus in news-making places like Washington, D.C., Russia and the Middle East.

support

ing jobs and getting into graduate Reasons our grads succeed in land school include: onsible, well-written and well- n The appeal of our smart, resp

and graduate school admissions spoken students to employers offices excellent academic programs n The preparation provided by our ol often say they’ve already (NWC alums in graduate scho -year classes.) learned what’s covered in first ntion from our professional atte l ona n The services and pers career counselors

n Evidence of exceptional volunteerism through campus ministries and short-term missions

n Internships with impressive companies, like these: International Center for Religion and Diplomacy Northwestern Reproductive Genetics Inc. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Sparrow Label Group in Nashville Integrys Energy Group WNBA’s Chicago Sky The Kennedy Center Trans Ova Genetics Holocaust Museum

Pella Corporation Bank of America Chicago Reporter Fitness Formula Ernst & Young World Vision

Northwestern’s Career Development Center can help you find the right internship and study abroad opportunities for your professional aspirations. They’ll also help you …

Explore your interests and skills and match them with majors and careers Study for grad school entrance exams like the GRE, LSAT or MCAT Find job opportunities through networking and career fairs Stand out with a creative résumé and portfolio

Invest in

success

College is an investment in the rest of your life. You don’t know exactly where you’re headed yet. But you want to make a great start. Northwe stern’s

Christian education will prepare you a faithful life. As a banker. Teacher. Nurse. for a great career—and Entr

follower of Christ.

epreneur. Committed

85% of Northwestern graduates finish college in four years or less, so you’re earning a salary sooner than pub lic university grads (nearly 40% of whom take five or even six years to grad uate from Iowa’s public universities). $56,000 is the average annual salary of a colle ge graduate, compared to $35,000 a year for workers who don ’t attend college. Over a 40-year career, that’s nearly $1 million in lost inco me if you don’t invest in college.

97% of Northwestern parents say it’s

worth the cost.