Help on your Path to the Future
Just as academic advisors and peer mentors support your journey through UT, we have coaches who will help you think about what comes next and set you up for success in your next chapter—whether that’s a job, graduate school, professional school, a start-up or a service opportunity.
We aim to help you develop the skills, the professional network and the pathway to success that will deliver a meaningful career experience once you have concluded your time with us in the college.
Health Professions Office
This office is here to help pre-health students better prepare for their applications to professional schools. Pre-Health Professions Coaches provide students with strategic coaching and relevant resources. Determine next steps as you progress toward individual goals with help from coaches who provide a supportive environment for exploring your path to a health professions career.
The office:
- Provides guidance through walk-ins and individual appointments
- Offers 24/7 access to extensive pre-health professions resources through its website
- Serves students from all undergraduate majors
- Hosts an annual Health Professions Fair featuring schools and programs from Texas
- Connects Health Professions Peer Coaches with high schoolers who are prospective students by appointment
Visit the Health Professions Office
Career Services
The College of Natural Sciences Career Services Office provides a variety of services and programs to empower students in career exploration, experiential learning, professional development and networking participation. The office also serves as a resource to employers by facilitating opportunities to connect with and recruit CNS students and alumni. The office:
- Hosts career fairs every semester, in September and February, bringing 200+ employers to campus to make connections for current or future employment opportunities. Registration starts in June and in December.
- Provides many resources and career information through its website, workshops, panels, employer tabling, industry talks and networking events.
- Sends weekly newsletters to share upcoming event and activity opportunities with students, as well as open job or internship postings from 12twenty.
- Partners with employers from strategic single engagements to ongoing annual partnerships.
- Offers appointments and drop-ins about career exploration, how to find jobs and internships, resumé reviews, cover letter reviews, planning for graduate school, interview prep and mock interviews
- Helps students prepare for graduate school programs (except those covered by the Health Professions Office)
Impact Lab
In the Impact Lab, CNS students tackle real-life challenges for societal impact. They learn about innovation, develop team-based solutions and services and connect with real-world organizations. They launch new opportunities and take part in intensive problem-solving sessions.
Most students begin by registering for the Practicum Course, which also satisfies some requirements for an entrepreneurship minor. The program:
- Offers opportunities to get course credit while working with community partners
- Supports participants after course completion in continuing to work as a team on the solution developed in the program
- Helps students pursue other course credit and competitive fellowships, complete the entrepreneurship minor and secure internships
- Engages students with startup resources at UT and in Austin, such as Longhorn Startup, which provides access to mentoring from successful entrepreneurs