Career Support

We offer a range of opportunities and professional development programs to help you gain the competitive advantage in your field regardless of where your career path may take you after graduate school.

Accelerate to Industry (A2i)

Our mission is to show NC State graduate students, postdocs, and alumni the wide range of available industry careers, to help them secure industry jobs, and to empower them to hit the ground running in the corporate environment by demonstrating key competencies that are not usually learned through graduate training.

Students and postdocs discuss job documents.

Academic Packways

Academic Packways: Gearing up for Faculty is an ideal professional development opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in pursuing careers in academia. Organized by NC State’s Graduate School, the Academic Packways program is engineered to inform students and postdocs about responsibilities and roles of early-career faculty and prepare them for the competitive academic job market.

Preparing the Professoriate

Preparing the Professoriate is a nationally recognized program designed to give exceptional doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars an immersive mentoring, teaching, and future faculty preparation experience.