Alumni Careers
SSP graduates are a diverse group, following careers in many different areas each year. They secure positions in the public sector, the private sector, the non-profit world, and academia.
SSP ’18 Employment Report
The numbers and sector breakdowns on this page are based on a 95.2% knowledge rate of the Class of 2018’s employment status (as of March 2019).
41% Public
Selected employers:
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Governments of Japan and Singapore
- National Counterterrorism Center
- Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice, State, and Homeland Security
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Army
11% Nonprofit
Selected employers:
- American Enterprise Institute
- Brookings Institution
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Institute for Defense Analyses
- RAND Corporation
- Stimson Center
47% Private
Selected employers:
- Boeing
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Deloitte
- IBM
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Ntrepid Corporation
- Giant Oak
- Marriott International
- McKinsey & Company
- Mitre
- Navanti Group
- PwC
- Valens Global
1% Multilateral
Selected employers:
- International Organization for Migration
Alumni Spotlight
What can you do with an SSP degree? Check out some of our recent alumni below, or view our full alumni profile archive.
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White House Fellow, Office of Personnel Management
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Chair, humansecurityX
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Consulting Associate Director, Aerospace & Defense, IHS Markit
Alumni Mentorship
SSP offers an Alumni Mentor Program to help current students build their network in the security community. Students who sign up are assigned to a participating SSP alum. The matching process is done carefully to link students with alumni based on their interests, background, and career goals. Ideally, the mentor relationship begins during the student’s first semester and progresses to the point where the mentor can make specific career suggestions, serve as a reference, and help the student forge additional professional relationships.