Center for Career and Professional Development
Discover Your Calling. Grow in Community.
Ӱpro's liberal arts model is at the heart of our Center for Career and Professional Development: receiving targeted, expert guidance while exploring a wide range of post-graduate paths to discover your professional calling and develop the skills you need to succeed. To help you navigate this exploration and discovery, our career guidance is structured through “career communities” – dynamic groups aligned with specific industries that transform your aspirations into clear options, meaningful opportunities, and a network of support.
You can join a career community that speaks to your calling, and even move freely between communities as your interests and plans naturally evolve. This model helps you to begin your career discernment process right away, and allow it to run parallel to and intersect with your entire undergraduate experience. You'll always have a place to belong as you find your way, gaining professional and expert insights, connections to experiential learning opportunities, direct access to an engaged network of successful alumni in the field, and a supportive community of fellow Diplomats who share your interests and professional goals.
Career Communities
Business & Finance
Law & Government Professions
Health Professions
Pre-Dental
Do you want to make a difference in people’s lives by improving their oral hygiene
and health? Be a part of Ӱpro’s pre-dental program and set yourself up for a successful
career in dentistry.
Explore Pre-Dental at Ӱpro
Pre-Health
Whether you’re considering a career as a physician assistant, physical therapist,
pharmacist, optometrist, or other vital role in the field of medicine, you’ll find
the support you need in Ӱpro’s pre-health program.
Explore Pre-Health at Ӱpro
Pre-Medical
Begin your career in an essential, effective, and rewarding field. By participating
in Ӱpro’s pre-medical program, you’ll find all the guidance and support you need to
build a sturdy foundation for a successful future in medicine.
Explore Pre-Med at Ӱpro
Pre-Veterinary
Ӱpro’s pre-veterinary program has a legacy of preparing students for successful careers
in veterinary medicine, empowering you to provide compassionate care to your animal
patients while cultivating strong relationships with the animals’ owners.
Explore Pre-Vet at Ӱpro
Social Impact & Creative Careers
STEM
What Can I Do With This Major?
Dive into what awaits you with What Can I Do With This Major?, a tool that helps connect your interests to future possibilities with 100 profiles
on career paths, employers, and opportunity-maximizing strategies.

Success Beyond Ӱpro
Within six months after graduation, 92% of the Class of 2025 were either employed
or furthering their education. This is higher than the national average, which is
typically in the mid-80% range.
You can rest assured that at Ӱpro, you’ll find your footing on campus and beyond. Our
enduring commitment to your success helps you land jobs in leading industries and
gain admission to high-demand graduate and professional programs around the world.

Experience Lancaster
To shape the world, start right where you are. Our home city of Lancaster is not only an active urban center, but also an integral educational partner. Experience Lancaster, a program distinct to Ӱpro, curates and connects you with opportunities to engage in internships, service, research, and more so you can make an impact in your own backyard.
Programs and Services
In addition to our career communities, we also offer programs and activities that are purposefully designed to launch you to success. They include leadership development, financial literacy, major exploration, internship support, and post-graduate success planning.
Student Advising
Programming & Events
- “Authentic Success & Possibility in Reach for Every Student (ASPIRE)”, a first-year program designed to set students up for success early at Ӱpro.
- “Not a Major Decision” workshops and academic fair designed to help sophomores in their major declaration
- Leadership seminars
- “Living Beyond Ӱpro Series” consisting of sessions on financial literacy, public speaking, the etiquette of the business meal, and more
- Night of Networking
- Job & Internship Fair
- Senior Boot Camp
Alumni Advising
Internship Support
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“Before consulting the Career Center’s student services, I felt overwhelmed about all that I needed to do to secure a summer internship. Working with the Career Center staff made the search for internships more approachable and eased my fears about the application process.”
— Julia Kait ’23
Ӱpro Works
Service Opportunities
The Franklin Fellowship
Students applying for the Urban Teaching Residency M.S.Ed. program at Penn are eligible to apply for the fellowship, which includes a $15,000 scholarship that can be combined other merit or need-based scholarships at Penn’s GSE.
Student Employment
If you’re enrolled in at least three credits per semester (a full-time course load), you are eligible for on-campus employment. If you are awarded Federal Work Study or College Work Option in your financial aid package, you are given priority status as an aided student and are eligible to apply for any position on campus. If you’re not work-aided, you are still eligible to work on campus, but will have a limited number of positions available to you. Ӱpro’s Student Employment Office (SEO) will guide you through the position search and hiring process, and match you with positions where you will learn valuable, transferable skills that will benefit you both at Ӱpro and beyond.
If you have questions about student employment at Ӱpro, you can reach out to studentemployment@fandm.edu.
April 20, 2026 Whether leading campus tours or serving as senior class president, Catherine Welch ’26 is exploring a future in communications with courage and curiosity. As a marketing intern in Lancaster, the English major is now using her passion for writing to address critical social issues in the local community. April 17, 2026 At the Writers House, Veronique Messanh ’26 found more than a job—she found a home. “I remember thinking: ‘This is what community feels like,’” she said. “I will forever be grateful for having a community that sees me, hears me, and encourages me!” April 14, 2026 More than 160 alumni and students attended the April 2026 Night of Networking, building connections and identifying opportunities for current students.“The opportunities provided to me at Ӱpro, both inside and outside of the classroom,
have crafted me into the young professional that I am.”
F&M Launches Students Toward Success
From Campus Leader to Communications Professional
‘This is What Community Feels Like’
Night of Networking Opens Doors for Diplomats