Career Guides
UChicagoGRAD’s Career Guides
- Academia
- Data Science & Analytics (Coming Soon!)
- Financial Services (Coming Soon!)
- Finding Part-time Teaching Opportunities
- Foundations
- Higher Education Administration (Coming Soon!)
- Industry Science
- Information Technology
- Instructional Design
- Management Consulting
- Museums
- Nonprofits, NGOs, and Social Enterprises
- PhD Program Applications
- Think Tanks
- U.S. Government & Policy (Coming Soon!) (Also see this guide from the Partnership for Public Service.)
- U.S. Job Search Guide for International Students
- Cultural Resource Management Career Guide (From Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.)
- Data Science Career Guide
- Government Career Guide
- JD or JD/PhD Career Guide
- Market Research Career Guide
- Museum Administration Career Guide
- Political Risk Consulting Career Guide
- Program Evaluation Career Guide
- Public History Career Guide
- Think Tank & Policy Career Guide
- User Experience (UX) Career Guide
- Resources for MAPSS/MACSS-ECON Concentrators
- Data Analyst vs. Data Scientist: What’s the Difference?
- What Does A UX Researcher Actually Do? The Ultimate Career Guide
Go Government / Partnership for Public Service Career Guides
- Administration & Program Management
- Data Science
- Business & Finance
- Education
- Information Technology & Computer Science
- Legal
- Public Health
- Security & Protection
- Social Sciences
- Work Abroad
Guides from Alumni
Alums from the MAPSS program have put together a few guides to industries of interest for Social Science students, including Data Science + Analytics, Knowledge Management/Consulting, and UX Research +
Design. These guides may offer some of the same resources as the ones above, but are written from the perspective of a Social Science alum working in the field. Explore those guides here.
UChicago Library – Subject Guides