Occidental College helps you bring the future into focus.
Career preparation at Occidental is personalized, proactive, and built into your experience. From your first year onward, Oxy connects your academic interests with future opportunities. Through advising, internships, alumni connections, and professional development, you’ll gain the experience and confidence to pursue careers, graduate school, and beyond.
No two Occidental graduates follow the same path, but a liberal arts education gives every student the versatility to think critically, adapt confidently, and make an impact. Find out where an Occidental degree can take you.
students working or continuing education 6 mos. post-grad
medical school acceptance rate, 2020-25
global fellowships awarded, 2021-26
Oxy students participating in internships
ARRAY Filmworks, Children’s Law Center of California, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, Walt Disney Concert Hall
“My Oxy experience still resonates. Being able to think critically about how people can come together and how you have to respect other cultures, ideas, different ways of solving problems—I literally use that every day.”
Leo founded Olebe Media Group after leading partnerships and business development for some of the world's biggest gaming and technology companies, including Xbox, Meta, Google, and Microsoft.
“That’s the biggest gift I’ve taken from Occidental: creativity can’t exist without critical and liberal arts-style thinking and debate.”
Lindsey oversees the development of Pixar’s feature films and streaming projects. She has helped bring many of the studio’s films to life, including as co-producer of the Academy Award-winning WALL-E.
“I think an important aspect of education at Oxy is the depth and breadth of scientific exposure you get—it really is a gem.”
After serving as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Namandjé now leads scientific innovation at Charles River Laboratories.
Occidental graduates continue their studies in medicine, law, public policy, the arts, engineering, business, and doctoral programs at leading universities across the country.
“My undergraduate experience at Occidental was invaluable... encouraging me to pursue interests in the intersection of AI, big tech, and human rights, and providing opportunities to explore rigorous cross-disciplinary studies.”
“Economics at Oxy provided me with a framework for asking targeted questions and finding clever solutions so that I could carve out a nice causal inference-shaped space for myself within the broad discipline that is data science.”
