Alumni Interest & Questions

In addition to the information available via the University Career Center, we encourage you to visit the Alumni Association's Professional Development page for alumni career resources.

• Learn more about the variety of resources available to you to seek employment. 
• You can access Handshake, the University of Maryland’s career management platform to search for opportunities specific to alumni in your particular field or area of interest. 

Visit the Alumni Association's Professional Development page for alumni career resources.

If you graduated from UMD over a year ago, and have not continued your education at another professional or graduate school post-graduation, you may request one 30-minute appointment for career guidance. Appointment times are limited. Please make requests through your Handshake account.

Specific resources are available for graduates of the following schools/colleges:

• A. James Clark School of Engineering | Engineering Career Services | Veronica Perrigan, vperrigan@umd.edu
• Robert H. Smith School of Business | Office of Career Services
  • Undergrads: smithocs_ug@umd.edu
  • Recent master’s and doctoral alums, content previous career counselor
  • General questions: smithocsquestions@umd.edu
• School of Public Policy | Career Connections | Bryan Kempton, bkempton@umd.edu

Yes, unless otherwise noted, alumni are welcome to attend our career events. Please review Handshake and our events calendar for a listing of upcoming programs.

There are a variety of ways for Terps to connect to Terps! You can join the UMD LinkedIn Group or consider joining the UMD Alumni Association.

Our annual Graduation Survey is a great source of information about recent graduates and includes information by school on where students are working, average salaries and location preferences.