Innovative Engineering Education
Employment, Graduate Schools, Research and Internships Olin students and alumni have great opportunities! Students enter Olin College ready for real-world challenges. Many of them spend summers in labs, corporations and service organizations after just one year at Olin. The project-based, real-world learning at Olin prepares them, and our Office of Post Graduate Planning helps to place them. The following information represents data from Olin’s alumni classes of 2006–2010.
Class of 2014
At a Glance
Olin’s class of 2014 has arrived and they are dialed into this decade’s hot topics: going green, being healthy, social media and cell phone apps. Along those lines, one has released two iPhone applications on Apple’s App store; another built an electric car out of a 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT (the car travels 120 miles on $1.50 worth of gas); another became a certified yoga instructor in 10th grade; one converted a car to run on vegetable oil; while another built a social networking site from scratch in PHP and one student started an organic garden at his school. Several are avid competitors; one placed in the top 12 junior girls at the USA Table Tennis Nationals; another competed on the US International Earth Science Olympiad team; one received a silver medal at the International Applicants Turkish Olympiad; one placed 2nd at the VEX 567 In v it e d to Candid Robotics World Championships; and another won ate Week ends 270 Admitted 171 the World Championships in Odyssey of the Mind. Enrolled 9 2 students They represent four foreign countries (China; Geograph y Germany; Korea; and Taiwan) and 23 US states. countries 23 states and four foreign Of the 92 students, 68 have been involved in Average G PA 4.6/4.0 (weighted community service, 54 were members of ) Percent Fe male/Male 56 percen 4 4 p academic teams, 64 are musicians, 49 are e rcent wom t men en, A d v anced Pla athletes, 22 are researchers, 28 are theater by AP Sch cement 67 perce olars Prog nt recogn buffs and 32 have a real passion for robotics. ized ram National Scholarsh ip They’re a studious bunch: 35 are AP Scholars National Merit Fina Programs 14 perc ent lists Honors 12 with distinction; one is a US Presidential valedictori ans/4 salu tatorians Leadership Scholar; 13 were National Merit Finalists; 7 4 % communit competed y serv o two were National Achievement Scholars; cians; 53% n academic teams ice; 59% ; a high scho thletes; 52% held 70% musitwo were National Hispanic Scholars; ol; 24% in volved in a job during ects; 30% research p d ra m a /the 12 were valedictorians and four were ro in studen t governm ater; 16% particip jated ent; 12% 35% on a are dance robotics te salutatorians. rs; am
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Olin College 2010–11: At a Glance
Top employers
Top Intern employers
Analog Devices athenahealth Boeing Corporation * DRS Technologies * Energy Solutions Giner, Inc. * Google Massachusetts General Hospital Microsoft * Pivotal Labs Raytheon Corporation * Rockwell Automation * Synapse The Mitre Corp. * U.S. Navy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
BBN Technologies BOSE DRS Technologies Explo General Electric IBM Intuit iRobot Microsoft MITRE NASA Raytheon Corporation Soft Artisans SolidWorks
* Denotes a company that has also sponsored a SCOPE project
Top graduate schools Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Harvard University MIT Stanford University Tufts University University of California Berkeley University of California Santa Barbara University of Washington Includes alumni who are attending, have completed or plan to attend
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Top Non-Olin Sponsored Research Programs Boston University Biomedical California Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Harvard University IMEC Research Labs, Belgium IREE, China Keck Graduate Institute Lawrence Livermore National Lab MIT MIT Lincoln Laboratory Princeton University Robert Gordon University, Scotland Stanford University Texas A&M UCLA University of Maryland University of Minnesota University of Southern California
As of August 30, 2010