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Careers for STS Majors

The STS major provides excellent preparation for a variety of careers—business, law, medicine, engineering, education, and public service are just some fields in which STS majors have flourished. Current and prospective STS majors are advised to consult the following resources in their career explorations:
Stanford Career Development Center is your campus resource for learning about careers, networking, job and internship lists, resume and interview preparation, and other services
The STS Job Resource Center (powered by AfterCollege) provides a list of jobs and internships selected specifically for STS majors
The STS Office has extensive information on careers of recent STS graduates in its publication “IDP Self-Study Report: STS Program, 1999-2006.” In some cases, we may be able to provide you with contact information for STS alums who are working for companies or in fields in which you are interested.

Associate in Applied Science - T (AAS-T)
If you decide to transfer to a college or university, generally only 15 of your professional/technical credits will be counted toward your transfer degree. Professional/technical degrees are designed to train students for a specific job or field. Classes tend to be hands-on, focusing on skills development as well as providing supportive academic theory and research.

By comparison, many Bachelor degrees at universities and colleges require students to focus their work in a particular area of study (discipline), rather than a specific job field. Many Bachelor degrees are not designed to prepare graduates for a specific type of work, but are designed instead to provide students with a broad educational foundation that will prepare students for a wide variety of careers.

There are some Bachelor degree programs, however, that prepare students for specific professional fields. Some examples of these are Business Administration, Engineering, Education, and Health professions.

Applied Science undergraduate

The Applied Science program enables students to create interdisciplinary specialties that prepare them for careers in a world that increasingly bridges academic disciplines. Students pursue subject-area concentrations that represent academic interests they wish to integrate into a meaningful program. The core offers students the intellectual tools to identify connections between the concentrations and engage in interdisciplinary problem-solving and critical thinking.

Each student’s curriculum combines a general engineering education with a carefully customized concentration in engineering and/or science as well as another area of emphasis, which may include courses taken inside the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and may also include courses taken in one or more of the other three colleges within the University.

In order to ensure the success of this individualized approach to education, Applied Science places primary emphasis on advisement. Each student is teamed with an advisor who helps the student plan the course of study and who supervises independent study and internships. The advisor remains in this capacity throughout the student’s undergraduate career.

Unlike students in the traditional college programs, students in the Applied Science program do not declare a major in a particular academic department. Instead, they develop a concentration that may combine study in several areas. Students are encouraged to develop the concentration to prepare themselves for further study in graduate school or to pursue a particular career path. While the chosen concentration can be highly customized in consultation with the advisor, examples of concentrations include: Technical Communications, Digital Media, Entertainment Science, Technology/Science and Education, Technology/Science and Pre-Law, Technology/Science and Pre-Medicine, Technology Management, Technology Marketing, and Engineering and Architecture.

The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science requirements in math and basic sciences, as well as the humanities and social science requirements, must also be satisfied.