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What Ball State grads actually do

Based on 245 notable Ball State alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

American football player
62
politician
23
basketball player
23
writer
20
baseball player
17
journalist
9
actor
9
head coach
8
television actor
7
lawyer
7
American football coach
6
film actor
6

Notable Ball State alumni

Keith Wenning
Keith Wenning
American football player
Peter Jubeck
Peter Jubeck
entrepreneur · restaurateur
Willie Snead
Willie Snead
American football player
Joyce DeWitt
Joyce DeWitt
television actor · film actor
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
contortionist · television actor
Philip F. Deaver
Philip F. Deaver
writer · poet
Jonathan Newsome
Jonathan Newsome
American football player · Canadian football player
Kenneth Mubu
Kenneth Mubu
politician

Salary outlook for top Ball State career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr
basketball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
baseball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
journalist
10th–90th percentile: $31,550$160,360
$57,500
median / yr
lawyer
10th–90th percentile: $69,760$239,200
$145,760
median / yr

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About Ball State

Ball State University (Ball State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana, United States. The university has three off-campus centers in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Fishers, Indiana. The university is composed of ten academic colleges. As of 2023, the university enrolled about 20,400 students with 14,900 undergraduates and 5,500 graduate and doctoral students. The university offers about 120 undergraduate majors and 130 minor areas of study and more than 100 masters, doctoral, certificate, and specialist degrees. In 1917, the Ball brothers, industrialists and founders of the Ball Corporation, acquired the foreclosed Indiana Normal Institute and gave the school and surrounding land to the State of Indiana. The Indiana General Assembly accepted the donation in the spring of 1918, with an initial 235 students enrolling at the Indiana State Normal School – Eastern Division on June 17, 1918. Ball State is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Ball State athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Ball State Cardinals. The university is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC), competing at the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Subdivision. Ball State's volleyball program is a member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA).

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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