CALS Career Services

CALS Career Services

CALS Career Fair

Your CALS career in the making

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is your partner in landing that dream job. Our career services team will advise, support and encourage you while providing resources and activities to help you pursue your career goals. From the largest agriculture and life sciences career fair in the nation to one-on-one interview prep meetings, we’re there all along your journey to becoming a professional in the agriculture and life sciences industries.

Visit the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Career Services website

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CALS placement, salary and internship info

We’re proud of the fact that 97% of our students have been placed into their first career destinations for over 20 years in a row. Outcomes matter. That’s why we encourage you to check out our career placement numbers, entry level salary information and summer internship survey results.

Explore career data

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CALS student success stories

The internships that College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students experience are as diverse as their many different interests in our majors. Our students and new alumni tell the story of how they landed their internship and what they were able to do with it.

Internship story archive

CALS alum working in a lab

Young alum of the month

Everybody loves a happy ending. Check out our Young Alum of the Month archive for incredible “where are they now” features about some of our recent graduates. From a skydiving forest fire smokejumper in Yellowstone to a clinical reproductive genetic counselor, our former CALS students go on to do amazing things.

Young alum of the month archive