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What Shaw grads actually do

Based on 60 notable Shaw alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

politician
16
physician
9
civil rights advocate
6
journalist
5
lawyer
4
university teacher
3
pharmacist
3
missionary
3
Christian minister
3
writer
2
military personnel
2
academic
2

Notable Shaw alumni

John A. Lankford
John A. Lankford
architect
James Roberson
James Roberson
politician
Shelia P. Moses
Shelia P. Moses
biographer · children's writer
Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar
singer
Benjamin Arthur Quarles
Benjamin Arthur Quarles
historian · university teacher
Max Yergan
Max Yergan
missionary · civil rights advocate
Clinton Caldwell Boone
Clinton Caldwell Boone
missionary
Radovan Trifunović
Radovan Trifunović
basketball coach · basketball player

Salary outlook for top Shaw career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
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
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr

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About Shaw

Shaw University is a private historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded on December 1, 1865, Shaw University is the oldest HBCU to begin offering courses in the Southern United States. The school had its origin in the formation of a theological class of freedmen in the Guion Hotel. The following year it moved to a large wooden building, at the corner of Blount and Cabarrus Streets in Raleigh, where it continued as the Raleigh Institute until 1870. In 1870, the school moved to its current location on the former property of Confederate General Barringer and changed its name to the Shaw Collegiate Institute, in honor of Elijah Shaw. In 1875, the school was officially chartered with the State of North Carolina as Shaw University. The main campus resides on 24 acres in the East Raleigh-South Park Historic District in downtown Raleigh. Shaw also owns and operates a 35-acre farm located on Rock Quarry Rd. Historical buildings, which either currently (Estey Hall) or previously (Shaw Hall) reside on campus, were designed by the famed Raleigh architect George S. H. Appleget and feature a Second Empire and Italianate architectural styles. Other architectural styles present on campus are Leonard Hall, a twin-turret Romanesque Revival style building, and several buildings featuring Brutalist style architectures. Along with Howard University, Hampton University, Lincoln University and Virginia Union University, Shaw was a co-founding member of the NCAA Division II's Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Conference, the oldest African American athletic association in the U.S. The university has won CIAA championships in football, basketball (women's and men's), tennis (women's and men's) and volleyball.

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

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