And when you do, you may find that your mother has turned your childhood bedroom into her new walk-in closet. (It happens. To your face, you will always be her No. 1, but notice how her shoe rack has replaced your stuffed owl collection.)
Have no fear! At Xavier, we’ve been keeping graduates off their parents’ sofas for 180 years, before sofas were even invented. (Back then you had to sleep in the goat pen, adding extra incentive to your job search.) Xavier’s Career Services Center, Executive Mentoring Program and personal academic support make you a more employable graduate. That’s why 88 percent of our alumni are employed, volunteering or in graduate school within six months of graduation.
Whatever you study, you will enter the real world prepared. Some degrees may even earn you a bit of pocket money, too—the average starting salary for a business major, for example, is $42,500. With that kind of money, you won’t be crashing out on your parents’ couch. You’ll be buying them a new one, in Italian leather.
