{"id":20,"date":"2013-08-20T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/career-services\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:09:46","slug":"majors-to-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/students\/majors-to-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Majors to Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Office of Career Services has developed career monographs or \u201cWhat Can I Do with a Major in\u2026\u201d&nbsp; to help you see the relationship between a major and a career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When students are deciding on a major as it relates to a possible career, it often helps them to see what former graduates have done with a degree in that particular major. Thus, these monographs show the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What employers have hired Harvey Mudd graduates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What job titles they have secured<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The median salary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What employers have hired students for summer experiences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The average summer salary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where Harvey Mudd graduates have been accepted to graduate school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career Monographs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-BIO.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Biology&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-CHEM.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Chemistry&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-JOINT-CHEM-BIO.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Joint Major in Chemistry and Biology (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-CS.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Computer Science&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-JOINT-CS-MATH.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Joint Major in Computer Science and Math (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-ENG.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Engineering&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-MATH.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Mathematics&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-JOINT-MATH-COMP-BIO.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Joint Major In Mathematical and Computational Biology&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/OCS-Monographs-2026-PHY.pdf\">What Can I Do With a Major In Physics, Joint Major in Computer Science and Physics, and Joint Major in Mathematics and Physics&nbsp;(PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The U.S. Bureau of Labor\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/\">Occupational Outlook Handbook<\/a>&nbsp;also provides useful information on numerous majors as they relate to careers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buzzfile is a comprehensive database of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfile.com\/GeneratedWidgetCode\/Show\/fc02c3fc-545f-4a4c-a372-cc01ec541643\">employers by major&nbsp;<\/a>which enables students to research thousands of potential employers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Career Services has developed career monographs or \u201cWhat Can I Do with a Major in\u2026\u201d&nbsp; to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3374,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/3886"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/career-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}