In 2022, our students joined 160 companies.
As of Aug. 24, 2022, 80 percent of the Class of 2022 had post-graduate plans lined up (276/345). This figure was gathered from our 300 students who graduated in May 2022 and 45 students who graduated in August 2022.
Further breakdown shows the following:
May Grads with employment plans after graduation:
- By June 10, 2022: 68 percent (205/300)
- By Aug. 24, 2022: 81 percent (243/300)
August Grads (33/45 students):
- By Aug. 24, 2022: 73 percent (33/45)
Overall - May and August grads (276/345):
- By Aug. 24, 2022: 80 percent
Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the job market for our students in the summer of 2022 was on the rebound. Students found jobs and internships in newspapers, audio and video newsrooms and digital-first publications across the United States and world, from Bangor, Me., to Portland, Ore.; from Miami to London to Jerusalem.
In 2022, one-third of the graduating class came from outside the United States. Nearly all of our international students are legally permitted to work for one year in the U.S. after graduation on an Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa. International students in Columbia’s M.S. Data Journalism program and dual degree M.S. Journalism and M.S. Computer Science programs qualify for longer-term OPT-STEM visas.
Our international students are competitive in the U.S. job market for short-term internships and positions while on OPT, but will find the landscape challenging. Longer-term work authorization after OPT (also known as sponsorship) is rarely granted, so international students should expect to return to their home countries at the conclusion of their OPT period. Once back home, our international graduates typically find that their Columbia degree has made them highly marketable.
The Class of 2022 landed at 162 companies after graduation:
| 60 Minutes | Grupo Clarín | Spectrum Networks |
| AARP | HealthDay News | Splunk |
| ABC News | Hearst Magazines | Spotlight PA |
| Accenture | Honolulu Civil Beat | Stacker |
| Accounting Today | HubSpot | Stitcher |
| ACLU | Hueman Group Media | Storyful |
| Advance Democracy, Inc. | Inc. Magazine | The Asahi Shimbun Newspaper |
| Air Mail | inewsource | The Associated Press |
| Al Jazeera | Insider | The Beacon |
| American Banker (Arizent) | Insurance insider | The Berkshire Eagle |
| Americas Quarterly | Inverse (Bustle Digital Group) | The Brown Institute |
| Bangor Daily News | Jackson Hole News & Guide | The Chief |
| Barron's (Dow Jones News Fund) | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| BBC (Washington, D.C.) | Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | THE CITY |
| BBC Global News Limited (New York, N.Y.) | Knoxville News Sentinel | The Daily Beast |
| BeaconFire | Los Angeles Times | The Daily Dot |
| Big Picture Science - SETI Institute | McClatchy | The Dallas Morning News |
| Bloomberg | Miami Herald | The Forward |
| Blue Chalk Media | Miami New Times | the Information |
| Boston Globe | Mintz Group | The New Republic |
| Bronx Documentary Center | Mission Local | The New York Times |
| Brut America | Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting | The New Yorker |
| Business in Vancouver Media Group | Narratively | The News Movement |
| Business Insider | NBC News | The Real Deal |
| Business Wire | New Bedford Light | The Root |
| BuzzFeed News | New Lines Magazine | The Scope Boston |
| ByteDance | New Mexico In Depth | The State |
| Caixin | New York Amsterdam News | The Texas Tribune |
| CalMatters | News 12 | The United Nations |
| CBS News | NewsBreak | The Wall Street Journal |
| Christian Science Monitor | NewsGuard | The Week |
| CNN | Newsmax TV | ThePioneer |
| Coda Story | Next City | Time Out NY |
| Columbia Journalism Investigations | North Country Public Radio | Tow Center for Digital Journalism |
| Columbia Journalism Review | NPR | Traverse City Record Eagle |
| Columbia University | Observer | Visual Capitalist |
| Community Impact | OCCRP | Vox |
| Connecticut Mirror | Oregon Public Broadcasting | VTDigger |
| Cultural Counsel | Palm Beach Post | Washington Monthly |
| Daily Hive | PBS NewsHour | Washington Post |
| Delmarva Sports Network | Pensions & Investments (Crain's) | WBUR (NPR) |
| Devex | POLITICO | WDRB |
| DotDash Meredith | Popular Science | WFUV |
| Esquire | Protocol | Wisconsin Watch |
| EST Media | Regional Plan Association | WLRN News |
| Eurasianet | Religion News Service | Yahoo Finance |
| Feature Story News | Rest of World | |
| Financial Advisor IQ | Reuters | |
| Financial Times | Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford | |
| First Amendment Watch | San Antonio Express News | |
| Forbes | San Francisco Chronicle | |
| FOX 43 | San Francisco Public Press | |
| FRONTLINE (PBS) | Saveur | |
| Futuro Media | Sino-Vision | |
| Gray Television | Slate | |
| Grid News | South China Morning Post | |
| Grist | South Florida Sun-Sentinel |