European Career Fair Statistics

The MIT European Career Fair (ECF) is an annual recruiting event in the Greater Boston Area, organized by members of the European Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).




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Our mission

Our mission is to connect top-tier US students and young professionals with European companies, universities, and non-profit organizations and help them learn about career opportunities in various fields, including robotics, pharmaceuticals, finance, aviation.

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Our legacy

Organized since 1997, the ECF is the largest of its kind in the United States and has a proven track record providing domestic, foreign, and multinational companies access to some of the highest caliber applicants worldwide.

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Our participants

Our candidates are students and recent alumni of and renowned European and American universities. Our company participants are diverse, ranging from renowned multinationals to smaller, innovative firms and startups.



On this website, we visualize the statistics of ECF from previous years.

Why is this visualization important?



ECF
For MIT and its students

Every year, the European Club donates most of the ECF revenue to MIT for the funding of MISTI programs in Europe (ca. $40,000). For more information, please see the news reports from previous years below.

For employers

The main reason why companies come all the way from Europe to Boston is to meet and recruit top students in US institutions. Particularly, they are most interested in MIT and Harvard students. After each year's fair, they follow up and request statics about the attendees, including their schools, degrees, and fields of interest. Knowing and conveying this information in a clear convincing way ensures they keep coming to ECF every year and we keep donating our revenue to MISTI programs.

Candidate
Statistics

Number of candidates
over the years

Thousands of students and young professionals attend the ECF every year. The number of registered candidates has recently been in the range of 2,500 - 4,500.



Top school attendance over the years


The majority of the candidates are MIT and Harvard students and graduates.
Click on the legend on the bottom of the chart to change the year.


Fields of study over time


This treemap shows a comparative view of different majors over the years.
Click on the legend on the bottom of the chart to change the year.


Highest degrees of candidates


Hover over the degrees to see the number of candidates in each category.

This visualization shows that the majority of the attendees
are either Bachelors or Masters degree candidates.




 


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Breakdown of Fields of Study
for Top 15 Attending Universities


Click the majors in the legend to filter a certain fields of study!
Hover over the bars to see the number of participants.

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Click again to go back to the initial view.

Employer
Statistics

Number of attending organizations
over the years

In recent years, around 100 companies, universities, and non-profit organizations from all around the world have attended the ECF to attract the top talent in the Greater Boston Area.



Employers: Where are they from?


US companies are not shown in the map below to better distinguish European countries' participation for the viewers.

Our attending organizations are active in a wide variety of industries.
Please click on of the countries shown on the map above to
view some of the respective attending organizations.
Here are just a few examples:
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