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Most CEU graduates (alumni) return to their home countries, where they frequently occupy important positions in academia or government, public agencies, NGOs, or the private sector. They are able to experience immediate, tangible continuity between their multi-cultural, socially-engaged, academic experience at CEU and their participation in intellectual, social and professional issues at home. As of 2007, the number of CEU graduates has grown to more than 6,400 individuals, residing in more than 90 countries.
The majority of CEU graduates enter professional careers in higher education and research, business, government and diplomatic service, as well as public interest and advocacy groups. They are becoming leading figures within national governments, as well as the business sector, in their home countries. Among them is the Minister for Minorities and Self-government in Vojvodina, a former Minister of Education in Estonia, two former Ministers of Justice (in Romania and Georgia), and many senior diplomats, advisors, heads of governmental departments and members of parliaments. In the business sector, CEU graduates hold posts as CEOs, senior managers and leading specialists with large national and international banks and companies. A number of graduates (approximately 30 percent) also continue their studies in doctoral or other advanced research programs.
- Continuing Studies at CEU: 34%
- Continuing Studies Elsewhere: 66%
Alumni who have
are currently employed in the following areas:
- Non-profit: Education and Research Institutions: 36%
- Non-profit: Public Interest and Advocacy Groups: 13%
- Non-profit: International Organizations*: 7%
- Private Sector: Business: 31%
- Public Sector: Government/Diplomatic Service: 13%
* Permanent staff (not representing national governments) of
international organizations (e.g., the United Nations, European
Union, Council of Europe, World Bank, OSCE)
Note: Departments not included below have not yet established
a large enough sample size to make a meaningful assessment.
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