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REPORTClass of 2015FIRST DESTINATIONAND CAREER PROFILE

Prepared by:Office of Career ServicesSeay Student Center415 North College AvenueClarksville, AR 72830479.979.1229rwalton@ozarks.edu

OZARKS Education:PROFESSIONAL AND PREPAREDAn organization is only as strong as its members. Today, one of the largestconcerns organizations face is where and how to find the right “fit.” Universityof the Ozarks has remarkable success in connecting organizations with highlyqualified graduates.Ready For the Next StepBolstered with knowledge, expertise and skills gained from an extensive liberal artscurriculum, University of the Ozarks graduates are thoroughly prepared for their nextstep with problem-solving, critical thinking and communicative acumen. Facingglobal competitiveness and a rapidly changing job market, U of O graduates areequipped with the reasoning, understanding, and creative skills for any academic orprofessional challenge they may choose. The University’s personalized and supportiveacademic environment ensures that students are prepared and empowered tosucceed, whether they want to immediately embark on their professional careers orpursue graduate or professional schools.Services Include: On-Campus Recruiting EventsJob Listing ProgramAnnual Career EventCorporate LibraryWeekly Career Corner Distributed to Ozarks CommunityFacebook UpdatesCareer Speakersº Labor Trendsº On-Campus EngagementClass of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS1

OZARKS Education:PROFESSIONAL AND PREPAREDOzarks Offers:1. A global perspective through a vibrant, diverse student body as well as accessto a wide range of travel and study-abroad programs throughout the world,empowering students with an invaluable cross-cultural experience.2. Students the ability to customize their educational experience and to explorea number of academic disciplines and interests through a broad-based liberalarts curriculum.3. Opportunities to enhance and strengthen leadership and collaborative skills bybeing an Orientation Leader, Resident Assistant, Peer Mentor, Ozarks Outdoorleader, team captain or serving in a cabinet role in one of the more than 40clubs and organizations on campus.2UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report

OZARKS Bridging the GapANNUAL ALUMNI PANEL PRESENTATIONSAlumni return to the campus and participate in the Alumni Weekend event,Professions with a Purpose.Mario Molina ’98Director of the Climate Reality ProjectOakland, CaliforniaSarah Reeves ’10Mathematics TeacherSiloam Springs, ArkansasLeslee Milam Post ’96Former State RepresentativeOzark, ArkansasClass of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS3

OZARKS By the NumbersAVERAGE ACT:22.4AVERAGE GPA:3.39INCOMING FRESHMANUNDERGRADUATES:MAJOR ACADEMICPROGRAMS:23MINOR ACADEMICPROGRAMS:404651STUDENTSPERCENTAGE OF STUDENTSRECEIVING FINANCIAL AID:99%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report

CAMPUS SIZE:INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIALAID DISTRIBUTED ANNUALLY: 9.140ACRESMILLIONEACH YEAR STUDENTS PROVIDE:CLUBS &ORGANIZATIONS:2,000 VOLUNTEER HOURS46STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO:VARSITY SPORTS:2113:1Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS5

OZARKS Survey ResultsCLASS OF 2015    107 graduates completed their degrees from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015    Data was collected based on the status of graduates from the time periodof January 2, 2016 to March 31, 2016    Total Success Rate: 98%PART-TIME EMPLOYED & STILL OOL18%EMPLOYED 77%SECTORS OF EMPLOYMENTBY ACADEMIC MAJORSECTORS OF EMPLOYMENTEDUCATIONARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOMMUNITY & GOVERNMENTALRETAILBUSINESS & FINANCETRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICSOTHERHEALTHCARE & MENTAL HEALTH02468101214161820University of the Ozarks follows the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) standards and protocols for thecollection and dissemination of graduating student initial career outcomes information for undergraduates.6UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report

WHERE 2015 GRADUATES WORKSTATES:Arkansas (33)Colorado (3)Florida (2)Iowa (1)Kentucky (2)Louisiana (1)Mississippi (1)Missouri (2)New Mexico (1)New York (1)Oklahoma (2)Tennessee (1)Texas (8)Washington, DC (2)COUNTRIES:Costa Rica (1)El Salvador (1)Germany (1)Honduras (2)Mexico (2)Nicaragua (2)Panama (2)WHERE 2015 GRADUATES ATTEND GRADUATE SCHOOLArkansas (7)Colorado (1)Missouri (1)New Mexico (1)New York (1)Oklahoma (1)Tennessee (1)Virginia (1)2015 radio/television/video graduate Billy Easley, shown with Communication ProfessorSusan Edens, is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Missouri.Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS7

OZARKS Career ProfilesThe creative and supportiveatmosphere at Ozarks helpedshape me to become avaluable team member to apassionate organization.Brooke Tralmer ’15Brooke Tralmer graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English. She is currently a copywriterfor Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, TX. As part of the marketing and public relationsteam, Brooke creates, edits and modifies advertisements for media including Facebookads, billboards and TV commercials.God has opened doors here inGermany to use my basketballtalent to show people in Germanythat God is not all about rules andwe can have fun with being Christfollowers through God’s mercy,grace and love.Andrew Cummings ’15Andrew Cummings graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. He iscurrently teaching basketball and living out a calling to be a missionary in Lauf an derPegnitz, Germany.8UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report

OZARKS Career ProfilesIt is definitely a different atmospherethan Ozarks — it is a cultivatingexperience being surrounded bypeers and professors with differentbackgrounds that are passionateand so involved in this field. I’mexcited for what is yet to come.Daniel Garcia ’15Daniel Garcia graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Math. He is currently pursuing agraduate degree in Biostatistics at Columbia University, New York, NY.Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS9

OZARKS First DestinationsThe sectors of employment for the class of 2015 are listed by first destination underacademic major.AccountingBusiness EducationShoji Tabuchi Theatre, MOAccounting/Box Office AssociateWindstream, ARAccountantOwasso Public Schools , OKHS Teacher/CoachFarm Bureau Financial Securities, IAOffice Manager/Sales AssociateArtArts InstituteGraduate StudentBirchtree Communities, ARParaprofessionalBiologyCH Rogers, ARSales AssociateCity of Fort Smith, AREnvironmental TechnicianHobby Lobby, ARTeam MemberJohnson County Conservation District, ARDistrict TechnicianMuskogee School District, OKBiology Teacher, Football & BaseballCoachUniversity of Arkansas, AR – Master ofEducation & Malvern Tire CompanyGraduate Student & Tire HandUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, ARGraduate StudentUniversity of Tennessee Health Sciences, TNGraduate StudentWashington & Lee University School of Law, VAGraduate Student10ChemistryEarly Childhood EducationAbundant Life Christian Schools, HondurasFirst Grade TeacherCenter Valley Elementary School, Russellville, ARTeacherMontessori School, ARLower Elementary TeacherSaint Christopher’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church& School, FLPre-School AssistantSpringdale School District, AR4th Grade TeacherSpringfield School District, MOSpecial EducatorWest Fork Schools, ARSpecial Education ParaprofessionalEconomicsPensum Consultores, El SalvadorConsultor AsociadoEnglishBaylor Scott & White Health, TXCopywriterUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report

CLASS OF 2015 SECTORS OF EMPLOYMENTCooper Music, ARContent Writer & Customer ServiceRepresentativeEast Poinsett County School District, AREnglish TeacherNortheastern University – Master of EnglishRhetoric/Language & Cultural CenterGraduate Student & Intensive EnglishProgram InstructorYMCA of Metro DC, DCAdmissions Advancement AssistantEnvironmental StudiesAramark, ARCatering AssistantDenali Stud, KYGroomerUS Department of Defense Threat ReductionAgency, NMInventory Management SpecialistGeneral BusinessOzark Beer Company, ARBrewerRandy Shelton Real Estate Services, TXAccount RepresentativeJim Hill High School & Belhaven University –Master in Teaching, MSScience Teacher/Head Coach &Graduate StudentRegis University, CO - Doctoral Program inPhysical TherapyGraduate StudentUniversity of Arkansas Cooperative ExtensionServices & University of Central ArkansasFamily and Consumer Science CountyExtension Agent & Graduate StudentUniversity of Central Arkansas Physical TherapyProgramGraduate StudentInternational BusinessORISA (Organismo InternacionalRegional de Sandidad Agropecuaria),HondurasAssociateMondelez International, Costa RicaRecruiting AdministratorManagementCopa Airlines, PanamaAnalyst in Revenue ProgramsGeneral StudiesManagement/AdministrationJean Bean Coffee, ARTeam MemberAtlantic Bank, BelizeOperations Officer for Finance andAccounting DepartmentHill & Wilkinson, TXProject EngineerJB Hunt Transport, ARCarrier Sales CoordinatorHealth ScienceArkansas Nuclear One, ARFitness For Duty CollectorFUMC Euless Preschool, TXTeaching AssistantContinued on Page 12Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS11

OZARKS First DestinationsJB Hunt Transport, ARCarrier Sales CoordinatorJose Fernando Salazar Galindo, MexicoGeneral ManagerTotal Quality Logistics, LALogistics Account ExecutiveWaffle House, KYUnit ManagerWalmart Transportation, ARSchedule CoordinatorMarketingAtlantida Bank, HondurasProtocol & Communications OfficialHashtag Sport, NYEditorial & Digital Marketing InternOfertaSimple.com, PanamaAccount ManagerSilhuetas Modeling Agency, NicaraguaMiss Universe ContestantUniversidad Centroamericana, NicaraguaMarketing ProfessorVictorOps, Inc., COSales SupportWhite Shark Media, FLAccount RepresentativeXpectare Interactive Media, MexicoAccount ManagerMathematicsArkansas Arts Academy High School, ARMath TeacherChanges Thrift Store, COSales Associate12Columbia University Mailman School ofPublic Health – Master of Science inBiostatisticsGraduate StudentJacob & Martin, LLC, TXField TechnicianLamar School District, ARTeacherMusicShowstoppers: Performing Arts Co., AROwner/Teacher of Theatre & MusicPhysical EducationArkansas Technical University – College StudentPersonnel, ARGraduate Student & Assistant BasketballCoachMemphis Academy of Health Sciences, TNPhysical Education Teacher/ BasketballCoachMissionary Work, GermanyMissionary/Professional BasketballPlayer/ TeacherMulberry Pleasant View School District, ARJunior High Social Studies Teacher/7-12Girls BasketballSouthern Methodist University, TXDirector of Operations & Video ServicesUniversity of Arkansas, AR – Teacher ProgramGraduate StudentUniversity of the Ozarks, ARAssistant Tennis CoachWhole Foods & Brick Street Brews, ARSpecialty Team Member & BartenderUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS Class of 2015 First Destination and Career Profile Report