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

95.93% Employment Success (Includes employed and continuing education)
6% Working Abroad Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Singapore, and the United Kingdom

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.

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.