Opportunities

Clubs

The Allegheny College Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery sponsors weekly luncheon meetings of students and faculty, hosts seminars and guest lecturers, participates in national programming contests, and sponsors picnics and other special events.

Recent Internships

  • Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Summer Minority Internship program
  • Platinum Technology, Seattle, Washington
  • Taos Mountain, Santa Clara, California
  • DigiKnow, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Cigital, Dulles, Virginia
  • Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, VA
  • TruFit Solutions, Cranberry Twp., PA

Summer Research

  • Carnegie Mellon University Summer Research Program
  • University of Tennessee Summer Research Program

Graduate School

Many of our majors attend graduate or professional school eventually. Schools attended by recent Allegheny graduates include:

  • College of William and Mary
  • University of Virginia
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Purdue University
  • Colorado State University
  • Clemson University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Maryland
  • Brown University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Career Data

  • College-wide, 95 percent of Allegheny Graduates who seek jobs find employment within five months of commencement.
  • The most popular fields with a bachelor’s degree: software engineering, program analysis, systems analysis
  • The most popular fields with advanced degrees: university/college teaching/research, application consultant, systems engineer, research computer scientist