Where can German study at St. Olaf take you?
Everywhere! Through St. Olaf’s Piper Center for Vocation and Career, students can find more information about life after graduation. The Piper Center has prepared resources profiling recent alumni, including representative First Destinations and alumni contact information for career networking.
St. Olaf German alumni have found their career paths through…
Competitive Postgraduate Fellowships:
Fulbright teaching and research in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and beyond
International Parliamentary Scholarship, German Bundestag
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service)
USTA Teaching Assistantship, Austria
Martin Luther Schule Guest Teaching Fellow, Rimbach, Germany
Graduate Studies:
Deutsche und Englische Linguistik, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Medicinal Chemistry, U. of Minnesota
Sacred Music, U. of Notre Dame
Physics, Michigan State
National and International Administration and Policy, Universität Potsdam
Medicine, Des Moines U.
German, U. of Michigan, UNC-Chapel Hill / Duke U., Georgetown U.
Law, U. of Minnesota
Political Science, Monterey Institute
Philosophy, U. Iowa
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, U. of Kansas
Industry, Education and Nonprofit Careers:
Germanic-American Institute, St. Paul, MN
Guy Carpenter, Minneapolis, MN
EPIC, Madison, WI
Faith in Place, Chicago, IL
Immigrant Law Center of MN
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Institute for Global Studies, U. Minnesota
New Prague High School, MN
Kalamazoo College, MI
To see some specific career pathways that German study has opened for St. Olaf students, read the featured alumni stories in the annual German Department Newsletters.