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Careers and Employment

Students graduating from the program are embedded in the world's largest concentration of technology companies. Equipped with the techniques and skills necessary for data-driven decision making, our graduates are prepared for careers in a wide variety of fields with rapidly growing demand for knowledgeable and well-educated data scientists, engineers, and analysts.

Employment Offers

Over 90% of all graduates since 2012 received a full time offer of employment within three months of graduation.

Salaries

Class of 2020:

  • $120,000 - Median Base Salary
  • $160,000 - Maximum Base Salary
  • $112,500 - Median Base Salary, International Students
  • $120,000 - Median Base Salary, Women
  • $110,000 - Median Base Salary, no prior work experience
  • $122,825 - Median Base Salary, 2+ years work experience
  • $14,000 - Median Bonus (signing, relocation, merit)

Class of 2020 Select Job Titles

  • Data Scientist
  • Data Engineer
  • Product Data Analyst
  • Machine Learning Engineer
  • Data Analytics Manager
  • AI Research Engineer
  • Artificial Intelligence Specialist
  • AI/ML Research Scientist

Most Common Job Title: Data Scientist (60%)

Class of 2020 Employers

  • Addepar, Inc
  • Afterpay
  • Amazon
  • Applied Materials
  • Big Data Federation
  • BOLD
  • Capgemini Invent
  • Carbon Heath
  • Catalina Marketing
  • Dwellsy
  • Ehealth
  • Ernst & Young
  • EveryDay Labs
  • Expedia Group
  • Factspan
  • Faire
  • Fiddler Labs
  • First Republic Bank
  • Gap
  • Genetech
  • Him & Hers
  • Hitachi America, Ltd. Financial Innovation Lab
  • IBM
  • Immuta
  • Invitae
  • Kinship/Whistle Labs
  • Pacific Gas and Electric Company
  • Pangea Holdings
  • Perceptronics Solutions
  • Petco
  • Plume Design
  • Pure Storage
  • QVC
  • Ranker.com
  • Reddit
  • Reputation.com
  • Riiid Labs
  • S&P Global
  • Scripps Research
  • Sensor Tower
  • Shipt
  • Snap Inc.
  • Tawkify
  • Tesla, Inc.
  • Tiktok
  • Tipping Point Community
  • TuneIn
  • VMWare
  • Voltaiq
  • Zillow Group

Class of 2020 Industries Represented

  • Advertising
  • Consulting
  • Consumer Goods
  • Ecommerce
  • Energy
  • Entertainment/Media
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Real Estate
  • Retail
  • Research/Education
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • Social Good/Non-profit
  • Sports/Gaming

Location

71% of 2020 graduates remained in the Bay Area.

2020 Graduate Locations Outside Bay Area

  • Beijing, China
  • Boston, MA
  • Chicago, IL
  • Columbus, OH
  • Hong Kong
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • New York, NY
  • San Diego, CA
  • Seattle, WA
  • Shanghai, China
  • Westchester, PA

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