OverviewCareer & Internship Report
MLDS students are highly sought-after job candidates across all industries. Below you will find information on our career and internship assistance. Our program supports every stage of the recruitment cycle for internships and full-time careers; while placement is not guaranteed, the majority of our students receive job offers within one to three months of completing the program.
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- Career Resources & Assistance
- Class of 2024 Career Report
- Class of 2023 Career Report
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- Class of 2021 Career Report
- Class of 2020 Career Report
- Class of 2019 Career Report
- Class of 2018 Career Report
- Class of 2017 Career Report
- Class of 2016 Career Report
- Class of 2015 Career Report
- Class of 2014 Career Report
- Class of 2013 Career Report
- Students & Alumni Discuss Their Internship Experience and Careers
Career Resources & Assistance
MLDS offers high-level networking opportunities for our students to engage with industry, including the annual Exchange conference, the MLDS seminar series, guest lecturers, and more. Students have access to resume assistance, interview prep skills, and much more through McCormick's Engineering Career Development office and Northwestern Career Advancement, and benefit from frequent industry visits to Northwestern's campus for recruitment.
Class of 2024
Internship Placements
AbbVie; Amazon; Assurant; Astellas Pharma; Atlassian; Azul 3D; BCG; Calamos Investments; Camping World; Cargill; CDK Global; CVS Health; Fitila Technologies; Genentech; ICF; Intel; Jazz Pharmaceuticals; LinkedIn; Major League Baseball; Motorola; Nordstrom; Northvolt; Northwestern Medicine; Novo Nordisk; NU MAGICS Lab; NVIDIA; Pepsico; Roche; Saio E-Commerce Ltd; Schnuck Markets; Staples; Start-Up; Supcon; Tanboer Co. Ltd; Tencent; TransUnion; United Airlines; USAA; Walmart; Wells Fargo; WelSpot; William Blair; Zealstrat
Class of 2023
Class Data
- Number of graduates reported seeking employment: 47
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 85% (40 of 47 students responding)
- Median starting salary (reported): $117,500
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 13%
- Average signing bonus: $30,000
Internship Placements
Amazon; Analysis Group; Ancestry; Beijing Jiaotong University; Breakthru Beverage Group; Camping World; Capitol One; Caterpillar; Chegg; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Curo Group Holdings Corp; CVS Health; Deloitte; Districon; Gallagher Bassett; Grainger; Health Care Service Corporation; HEB; Hyatt; JLL; JP Morgan; Mayo Clinic; Microsoft; Millipore Sigma; Motorola; Nationwide Insurance; Netflix; Nike; Oracle; Paylocity; PayPal; Roblox; SAP; Synopsys; TransUnion; Uber; UL; United Airlines; Westfield Insurance Company; William Blair; WLDA; Yahoo; Zealstrat
Class of 2022
Class Data
- Number of graduates reported seeking employment: 42
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary (reported): $122,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 29%
- Average signing bonus: $15,600
Internship Placements
ABC Supply; Amazon; Banker Healthcare Company; BCBS; BillionToOne, Inc.; Care Journey; Crowe LLP; Enova; Facebook; Grainger; Mars Inc.; Mask Network; Meta; Nike; PayPal; Pinterest; Robinhood; Roblox; The Trade Desk; Tinder; TransAmerica; TransUnion, Twitter; Uber; Walmart Global Tech; William Blair.
Class of 2021
Class Data
- Number of graduates reported seeking employment: 41
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary (reported): $112,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 71%
- Average signing bonus: $12,190
Internship Placements
Adobe; AI Application in Retail; Amazon; Arity; Baidu Research; Bayer; Bloomberg; Boehringer; Ingelheim; Captial One; CICC; CVS Health; Facebook; First Republic; Ford; GoDaddy; HEB; Honeywell; Lyft; Nationwide; Pandora; Quicken; Salesforce; Teklink; Truist Financial; TU; Twilio; VideSpan; Walmart; Wayfair; Zealstrat; ZS Associates; Zurich.
Class of 2020
Class Data
- Number of graduates reported seeking employment: 36
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary (reported): $110,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 42%
- Average signing bonus: $11,000
Internship Placements
Aarete; ABC Supply; Alibaba in China; Autodesk; Avanade; BCBS; BoffinAI; Crate & Barrel; Capital One; Center for Deep Learning; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Chicago Trading Co.; Cloud9 Esports; Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning; Disney; Facebook; GoDaddy; Google; Grainger; Intel; Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab; LinkedIn; Microsoft; Nationwide; Nokia Bell Labs; Paylocity; Poshmark; Republic Wireless; SHURE; TikTok; TransUnion; Uber; Unity Technologies; US Bank; USAA; Zebra Technologies; Zillow.
Career Placements
AArete; ABC Supply Co. Inc.; Aetna, a CVS Health Company; Aimpoint Digital; Amazon; Bayer; BillionToOne; C3.ai; Capital One; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Chicago Trading Company; Dexcom; Didi; DoorDash; Facebook; First Republic Bank; Google; Intel Corporation; The Home Depot; Intuit; Jarvus Innovations; LinkedIn China; Meta; Microsoft; News UK; Nokia; Paylocity; PayPal; Pinterst; Procter & Gamble; Relay; Sam's Club; Sapere Consulting; Tencent Games; TikTok; Uber; U.S. Bank; Unity Technologies, Zillow.
Class of 2019
Class Data
- Number of graduates reported seeking employment: 45
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary (reported): $108,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 64%
- Average signing bonus: $14,230
Internship Placements
84.51; ABC Supply; AeroPay; BCBS; Capital One; Chicago White Sox; Civis Analytics; CME Group; Crate & Barrel; Deloitte; DoorDash; Enova; Facebook; GoDaddy; HCSC; Intel; Kavi Global; LinkedIn; Looker; Lyft; NASA; OneOme; Opex Analytics; Palo Alto Networks; Pandora Media Inc.; PayPal Inc.; TransUnion; United Parcel Service; Wayfair; Zillow.
Career Placements
84.51; Aetna; Affirm Inc.; Amazon; Anthem, Inc.; BCBS; Capital One; Chicago White Sox; BCBS; Daily Harvest; Deloitte; DoorDash; Enova; Exact Sciences; Facebook; GoDaddy; Intel; Intuit; Kavi Global; LinkedIn; NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Opex Analytics; Palo Alto Networks; Pandora Media Inc.; Procter & Gamble; Thumbtack; TransUnion; UpWork; Walmart Labs; Zillow.
Class of 2018
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 40
- Students with offers within 1 month of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $115,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 70%
- Average signing bonus: $13,360
Internship Placements
A.T. Kearney; ABC Supply; Airbnb; Apple; Balyasny; Buzzfeed; CME Group; Enova; Expedia; Ford; GoDaddy; HCSC; KPMG; Lazard; LinkedIn; Microsoft; Molex; NASA; Nordstrom; On Point Technology; Opex Analytics; Procter & Gamble; Schneider; Social Finance; Spotify; Boeing; TransUnion; Trello; Zurich NA.
Career Placements
A.T. Kearney; ABC Supply; Apple; Atlassian; Catalina; Facebook; Enova; First Republic Bank; GoDaddy; IBM; LinkedIn; McKinsey; Microsoft; Molex; Motorola; Nike; Nordstrom; Opex Analytics; Procter & Gamble; QuantumBlack; Quicken; SoFi; Spotify; State Street; Thumbtack; TransUnion; TripAdvisor; Uber; Windfall
Class of 2017
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 38
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $102,500
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 50%
- Average signing bonus: $11,160
Internship Placements
Autodesk; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois; Cambia Health; Cars.com; CenturyLink; Chatham Financial; Conversant; Crime Lab New York; Drizly; EA Sports; Enova International; GE Transportation; GoDaddy; Gogo; Groupon; Interactive Health; John Deere; Kaiser Permanente; NASA JPL; Nielsen; Nike; Northwestern University; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Redfin; Spotify; Square; Storefront Political Media; The Aerospace Corporation; TransUnion; Twitter; W.W. Grainger, Inc; WeWork.
Career Placements
Dialogtech; Nielsen; JPL; Opex; TransUnion; WeWork; KPMG; Groupon; Ipsos; Looker; Activision; Ebay; Square; GoDaddy; Qualtrics; Conversant; Nike; IBM; Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Redfin; Twitter; Enova; Forcepoint; Spotify; AIG Insurance; Noodle AI; CenturyLink; Clarity Insights.
Class of 2016
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 37
- Students with offers within 1 month of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $105,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 51%
- Average signing bonus: $13,250
Internship Placements
Advocate Physician Partners; Amazon; Autodesk; Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.; CivicSmart; Civis Analytics; Eco Green Analytics; Enova; Farmers Insurance; Genentech; Genostyle LLC; Groupon; Hewlett Packard Enterprise; IBM; IBM Global Business Services; McKinsey & Company; NASA JPL; New York Yankees; Nielsen; Nordstrom; Schneider; SlamData; Teradata Corporation; T-Mobile; TransUnion; United Airlines; United Nations; University of Chicago Crime Lab New York; Vote Cruncher.
Career Placements
Amazon; Autodesk; Blizzard Entertainment; Boosting IO; Crime Lab New York; Crime Lab University of Chicago; Evolve Vacation Rental Network; GE Digital/Transportation; Genentech Analytics; Google; Groupon; IBM; IBM, Interactive Experience - Watson Health; IRI; JPL; McKinsey and Company; New York Yankees; Nielsen; Noodle.ai; Oracle; Spotify; T-Mobile; TransUnion; Uber; Verisk Analytics; Williams-Sonoma International; Yahoo; Zillow; Zurich NA.
Class of 2015
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 31
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $100,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 40%
- Average signing bonus: $12,000
Internship Placements
Apple iTunes; Bitcasa; Chubb Group; eBay; Hewlett-Packard; IBM; LinkedIn; Micron Technology; Motorola; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Nielsen; Nike; Nordstrom; Northwestern University; Pandora Media; Paypal; Schneider; Square Inc.; STATS LLC.; Tampa Bay Rays; Teradata; The Hartford; TransUnion Financial; Unity 3D; Uptake.
Career Placements
AgilOne; Ascension Health; Avant; CapitalOne; Clarity Solution Group; Deloitte; GE Transportation; Google; Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Holland America Line; IBM Global Business Services; Interactive Health; KPMG US; LinkedIn; New York Presbyterian Hospital; Nielsen; Nike; Nokia HERE; Opex; Oracle Data Cloud; Pinnacle Entertainment; PNC Bank; Silicon Valley Data Science; Square; Unity Technologies.
Class of 2014
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 31
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $98,250
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 40%
- Average signing bonus: $12,000
Internship Placements
Anthropologie; Autodesk.com; Blue Cross Blue Shield; Charles River Consulting; Chegg.com; eBay PayPal; EXL Consulting; GE Capital; GE Transportation; Gelber Group; Interactive Health; Motorola; NASA JPL; Neustar; Nielsen; Nokia; Pulse8; PwC; SBB Research; TransUnion; Uber; Walmart; Wellmark.
Career Placements
Autodesk; BluePay Processing; Chegg; Chubb Group; Conversant; Datalogix; Deloitte; Ebay; IBM; Interactive Health; MetLife; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Nordstrom; Opex Analytics; PayPal; Quantium Marketing; Tampa Bay Rays; TransUnion Financial; VivaKi; Zurich North America.
Class of 2013
Class Data
- Number of graduates seeking employment: 29
- Students with offers within 3 months of graduation: 100%
- Median starting salary: $91,000
- Offers reporting signing bonus: 45%
- Average signing bonus: $10,000
Internship Placements
Alpine Data Labs; Amazon; Bank of America; Blizzard Entertainment; BrokerSavant; Cars.com; Cleveland Cavaliers; CME; Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Cosenit S.A.; Deluxe; Disney; EA Sports; Facebook; Glyph; FTI Consulting; JPL; Kaiser Permanente; Nielsen; Nokia; PwC; Redfin; Roundarch Isobar; Salesforce.com; TransUnion; UBS; Walgreens; WE Energies.
Career Placements
Alibaba Research Center; AOL/Huffington Post Media Group; Blizzard Entertainment; Cars.com; Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Civis Analytics; Cosenit; Datalogix; Facebook; FTI Consulting; Grainger; Groupon; Illinois Tool Works; Intent Media Inc.; Interactive Health Inc.; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Kaiser Permanente; Motorola; Nielsen; Nokia HERE; Opex Analytics; Pandora Media; Salesforce.com; TransUnion Financial; The Walt Disney Company.
