The IST Professional Placement Program offers all IST (UP) students the ability to avail themselves to innovative career related services specific to the post-graduation transitioning of IST seniors.

Our success is evident and is leading four-year undergraduate programs at University Park given:

• IST graduates have enjoyed a placement rate above 95 percent for the past six years.
• The average undergraduate salary for the class of 2007 is $56,500.
• IST graduates have been hired in many segments of the labor market including consulting, defense contracting, manufacturing, financial services, and insurance industries, to name just a few.

Students also benefit from a strong educational and experiential background in their IST academic curriculum, which allows them to pursue advanced degrees at schools such as:

• MIT
• University of Pennsylvania
• Cornell
• UCLA
• University of North Carolina
• University of Maryland

Strong business relationships and IST go hand in hand. Here is an industry sampling of our close corporate partnerships:

• Accenture
• AETNA
• Air Products
• Allstate
• BAE Systems
• Bank of NY Mellon
• Booz-Allen Hamilton
• CSC
• Deloitte Consulting
• Ernst and Young
• FBI
• General Electric
• Geico
• Honeywell
• HPTI
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lockheed Martin
• L'Oreal
• Northrop Grumman
• Owens Corning
• Price Waterhouse Coopers
• SRA International
• US Steel
• Vanguard