SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Career Paths for English Majors
English majors can pursue any number of career choices. As a result, graduates of Penn State Erie's program in English have found employment in a wide variety of fields.
For example, a number of our graduates now work at nearby Erie Insurance.
Many have entered professional programs in law or medicine or pursued advanced degrees in English or other disciplines. Several of our graduates teach English at the junior-high or high-school levels. Still others work in the private sector for insurance companies, research institutions, corporations, and real estate firms.
Employers who have hired recent graduates include:
| American Horticultural Society | Lab School of Washington |
| Barnes & Noble | Mercyhurst College |
| Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania | National Fuel |
| Brown Thompson Newspapers | Nine West |
| Caldwell Banker | Rodale Press |
| Erie Art Museum | Stephen & Moore, Inc. |
| Erie Insurance | Times Publishing Company |
| Florida Conservation Association | The Penn Stater |
| Gannon University | University of West Florida |
| Industrial Institute of Erie | Waldenbooks |
| Johns Hopkins University | Washtenshaw United Way |
English majors have entered graduate programs at New York University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Syracuse University, University of Northern Iowa, and West Virginia University.