Employment Information

According to our 2026 Alumni Survey, 70% of our graduates secured employment within three (3) months of graduation. Twenty percent (90.03%) of our alumni respondents reported earning between $50,001 and $70,000 per year, 35% between $70,001 and $90,000, and 31% above $90,001.
Post-Graduation Survey Data
# of graduates Academic Year – 2025-2026 Academic Year – 2024-2025 Academic Year – 2023-2024
# of graduates with job offers 19 12 12
# of graduates admitted into advanced degree program 0 1 1
# of graduates unreachable / did not respond 1 0 5
Other (e.g., responses with no job offer) 1 5 0

Our Alumni are successfully employed by public laboratories, private laboratories, and universities

Federal, State, and Local Public Crime Laboratories

Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Dover, DE
Center of Forensic Sciences, Toronto, Canada
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department Forensic Division, Contra Costa County, CA
Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory Division, Quantico, VA
Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Hudson Country, NJ
Legal Aid Society, New York, NY
Los Angeles Police Department, Scientific Investigation Division, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
Nassau County Crime Lab, East Meadow, NY
New Jersey State Police, Office of Forensic Sciences, West Trenton, NJ
New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY
New York City Police Department Laboratory, Jamaica, NY
New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Elmhurst, NY
New York City Department of Public Works, New York, NY
New York City DOHMH Public Health Laboratory, New York, NY
North Mecklenburg Police Department, Charlotte, NC
Office of the Medical Examiner, San Francisco, CA
Orange County Sheriff Department, Santa Ana, CA
Santa Clara County District Attorney's Crime Laboratory, San Jose, CA
Suffolk County Crime Lab, Hauppauge, NY
United States Drug Enforcement Agency, Laboratory Division, New York, NY
United States Drug Enforcement Agency, Laboratory Division San Francisco, CA
Union County Prosecutors Office Crime Lab, Elizabeth, NJ
U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Forensic Laboratory, Dulles, VA
Washington DC Department of Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC
Westchester County Forensic Lab, White Plains, NY

Private Companies

Acutis Diagnostics, East Northport, NY
Alliance Laboratories, Brooklyn, NY
Advanced Clinical Laboratory Solutions, Brooklyn, NY
Antech Diagnostics, New Hyde Park, NY
Ammon Labs: Diagnostic Laboratory, Linden, NJ
Applied DNA Sciences, Stony Brook, NY
Bode Technology, Lorton, VA
Cordant Health Solutions, Denver, CO
Core Pharma, Middlesex, NJ
Excell Clinical, Cranford, NJ
Genewiz, South Plainfield, NJ
LabCorp, Burlington, NC
LakePharma, Belmont, CA
Meadowlands Diagnostic, Woodridge, NJ
Microtrace, Elgin, IL
Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY
NMS Labs, Willow Grove, PA
Purdue Pharma, Totowa, NJ
Quest Diagnostics, Madison, NJ

Academic and Research Institutions

California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
John Jay College, New York, NY
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, Queens, NY
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

 

For any additional questions please contact Marta Concheiro-Guisan via email (mconcheiro-Guisan@jjay.cuny.edu).