Student Achievements
BS FTC Spring 2020- Spring 2024 Post-Graduation Career Paths
The enrollment numbers for the last 3 years in the BS FTC program are: Spring 2022 - 65, Spring 2023 and Spring 2024 - 73, Spring 2025 - 70. The program graduated 34 students between Spring 2020 and Spring 2024 semesters. 5 students graduated in 2020, 10 in 2021, 5 in 2022, 7 in 2023, and 7 in 2024.
The chart shows our 2020 Spring to 2024 Spring graduates' post-graduation career paths within their first year of graduation. Of the 34 students who graduated in this time frame, 59% of graduates were employed as scientists in entry-level positions at analytical chemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry labs. 26% of students secured positions as forensic analysts either in a crime lab or a toxicology lab. Less than 10% of the students chose graduate school immediately after graduation. This data is consistent with our experience of student success.
BS FTC: Fall 2013-Fall 2023 Alumni Survey
92% of our graduates secured entry-level scientist positions within 6 months of graduation with a majority of them (69%) starting employment within 3 months of graduation. (n= 22)
85% of alumni respondents felt that the education and training they received at WCU was adequate for their first laboratory position. (n= 22)
92% of our graduates remained in their first position for 1-3 years before advancing to other positions or changing employers. Less than 10% of graduates changed employment within the first year after graduation. (n= 22)
