What Can I Do with a French Major?
There are many post-graduate opportunities for French majors. Each year, several majors return to France to work as an English Language Assistant in a French school. Others spend one or two years working for an organization such as Teach For America, AmeriCorps, or the Peace Corps before attending graduate school or beginning a career. Recent graduates have gone into the following professions:
- Foreign Service, US Chargé d’Affaire (French and Political Science)
- Postdoctoral fellow, Institut Pasteur, Paris (French and Biology)
- Author (French and East Asian Studies)
- Senior Corporate Attorney (French and Political Science)
- International Relations (French and Political Science)
- International opera performer (French and Music)
- Coordinator of Tour Programs, National Archives (French and History)
- Medical School (French and Biochemistry; French and Biology)
- Medical researcher (French and Biochemistry; French and Biology)
- Assistant to art gallery director (French and Art History)
- Museum Curator (French and Anthropology)
- International Trade (French and History)
- Program Manager, international NGO (French and Political Science)
- Politician (French and Political Science)
- Ethical investment partner (French)
- High school teacher (French)
- Peace Corps (French)
- Consultant, International Finance Corporation (French and Economics)
- University professor (French)
- Lawyer (French; French and History; French and Political Science)
- Public Health (French and Biology)
- Social Work (French)
- Architect (French and Mathematics)
- Editor (French)
- International MBA (French; French and Economics)
- Speech pathologist (French)
- Translator (French and Russian)
- Librarian (French and English)
- International Education (French)
- Cosmetics industry, l’Oréal (French and Chemistry)
- Booking agent for rap groups, bands, and deejays (French)
- Producer, public radio (French)
- Professor of French and Theater (French and Theater)
- Senior Information Architect (French and Psychology)
- Logistician for Médecins sans Frontières (French and Political Science)
- US Department of Agriculture, Africa and Middle East Division (French and History)
- Teaching English as a second language (French)
- International hotel management (French and Economics)
- Culinary arts (French)
- Special needs education (French)
- Speech communication and cross-cultural interaction (French)
- International management (French and Russian)