Year after year, top agencies and companies actively recruit and hire our graduating class.
Why do they love to hire Brandcenter grads?
Our grads are known for being multi-functional, polymathic, excellent collaborators, big thinkers, strategic risk takers, great problem solvers, and sharp presenters. Not only do they hit the ground running in their jobs but they also tend to move up quickly.
Brandcenter alumni work on behalf of the world’s biggest brands, at some of the most creative and innovative companies in the world, and at the world’s leading advertising, design, and innovation agencies and consultancies.
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Throughout your two years, we’ll provide career guidance every step of the way on everything from crafting resumes to prepping for interviews to negotiating salaries to reviewing contracts. And, when it comes time for internships and jobs, we’ll give you the tools and exposure you need.
Brandcenter conducts an Alumni Salary Survey every two years to track the careers of our alumni. The questions cover topics from average salaries to promotion experience, job satisfaction, work-life balance and more.
Here are some trends we’ve seen from recent graduating classes:
88% of respondents from the Class of 2025 had at least one job offer within three months of graduation.
91% of respondents from the Classes of 2024 & 2025 reported feeling very well prepared or prepared for their jobs.
Early-career Brandcenter graduates earned, on average, 14% more than the national average for comparable junior-level roles.
See where the Class of 2026 is landing jobs
ACCOUNT/BRAND MANAGERS
Gabe Glassman – JOAN NY, NYC
Libby Browder – JOAN NY, NYC
Austin Fattizzi – EURPAC, RVA
Olivia Koerner – Influenceable, Charlotte
ART DIRECTORS
Paityn Aunapu – Davis Agency, Virginia Beach
Ben Crispin – Arnold, Boston
Max Dotson – Gus, NYC
Zofia Farley – GUT, LA
Sarah Flynn – MAL, LA
Eliza Fry – Anomaly, NYC
Kaitlyn Gough – Lucky Generals, NYC
Lorna Graham – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
Maddie Green – MARTIN*, RVA
Laurel Holsinger – Havas, NYC
Zoe Kennedy – Artemis Ward, Washington DC
Jennifer Kim – Mother, LA
Chen Li – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
John Marenic – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
Anna Monnett – Innocean, Huntington Beach
Paige Mudd – Saatchi, NYC
Monse Munoz – MARTIN*, RVA
Kristina Murray – BBH, NYC
Logan Murray – Quality Meats, Chicago
Chloe O’Hallaron – Saatchi, LA
Izzy Pinson – Flower Shop, NYC
Leah Silverman – Walrus, NYC
Lori Tsai – Mother, NYC
Annie Zheng – Tombras, NYC
COPYWRITERS
Carson Brooke – Havas, NYC
Moss Davis – McKinney, Durham
Diana DeGroot – MAL, LA
Caleb Driesman – Gus, NYC
Sam Grigsby – Saatchi, NYC
Thomas Halsey – MARTIN*, RVA
Emery Hasenstab – Arnold, Boston
Casey Hickman – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
Jon Ilbay – Ogilvy, Chicago
Sam Khan – Mother LA
Hal Mady – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
Greg Patterson – Mother, NYC
Josef Pellegrini – GUT, LA
Marissa Price – MARTIN*, RVA
Emma Rich – Arnold, Boston
Sam Rosenberg – McCann, NYC
Emma Roth- Broadhead, Minneapolis
Sandra Sanchez – Lucky Generals, NYC
Maddie Seabolt – Argonaut, SF
Imaan Shaikh – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
Arianna Stewart – Davis Agency, Virginia Beach
Hannah Wente – Walrus, NYC
PRODUCERS
Noah McKee – Mother, NYC
PRODUCT/UX DESIGNERS
Meredith Moore – UDig, RVA
STRATEGISTS
Alyssa Black – Lucky Generals, NYC
Rhyann Clark – Artemis Ward, DC
Katie Dunn – Matheson Oyster Company, Gloucester
Kathleen Firment – Familiar Creatures, RVA
Hailey Fitzgerald – DEEPLOCAL, Pittsburgh
Lucas Gaitan – Droga5, NYC
Casey Hall – Goodby Silverstein & Partners, SF
Briyana Li – NOVA Tastings, Bristow
McCenzie Murphy – UEG, NYC
John Romanelli – Havas, NYC
Samyuktha Shankar – Minds & Assembly, NYC
Judson Simpson – SYLVAIN, RVA
Avni Srivastav – BBH, NY
Cai Strachan – Davis Ad Agency, Virginia Beach
Caroline Thomas – Leo, NYC
Ivana Wade – Wieden + Kennedy, Portland
agencies who have hired 2025 + 2026 grads
Brandcenter Master’s Program Career Preparation
Portfolio Development and Skills
Advanced Portfolio Class: Take the skills and work honed over your time in the program and turn them into recruiter-worthy pieces. While you’re always pushing to make your best work at Brandcenter, we devote dedicated time to polishing specific projects for your final portfolio.
Career Prep Workshops: Receive specialized training in all things career from building a standout resume to mastering networking, interviewing, and more.
Personalized Guidance & Mentorship
Individualized Career Support: From answering interview prep questions to connecting you with the right person at an agency, you’ll have dedicated staff to help guide and root for you throughout your job search.
Assigned Industry Mentors: All students are paired with an alum mentor during their second year, coordinated by concentration, specific interests, and long-term career goals.
Recruiter Access
Recruiters love Brandcenter graduates, and we make it easy for them to discover our talent.
Recruiter Session to Launch Your Job Search: The spring of your second year in the program, recruiters join us in-person in Richmond, VA to get the first look at (and hire) Brandcenter grads.
Curated Recruiter Lists: Agencies actively look for talent here. When they reach out to us, we send back curated lists of graduates who fit specific job openings.
Recruiter Website: In addition to our in-person Recruiter Session, we distribute digital portfolios of our graduating class directly to an extensive network of recruiting contacts.
More about Recruiter Session
Recruiter Session is our annual debut of the graduating class. We invite recruiters from all over the country to come to Richmond, VA to meet our newest grads and check out their work. There are both in-person and virtual recruiting opportunities.
See the agencies and companies that participated in our most recent Recruiter Session
72andSunny
Amazon
Anomaly LA
Arc Worldwide
Argonaut
Artemis Ward
Arts & Letters Creative Co.
Barkley OKRP
Battery
BBH USA
Black Math
Bloomberg
BLT Recruiting
BUCK
Burrell Communications
Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners
Capital One
CapTech
Carmichael Lynch
Cheil Agency Network (McKinney, Iris, Barbarian, Attention Arc, and Cylndr)
Children’s Health
Community Solar Circle
Corner Table Creative
CoStar Group
Creative Search Consultants
Davis Ad Agency
Doe-Anderson
Drake Cooper
Familiar Creatures
Futura Collective
Gain Inc.
Gangbustrs
Geoff McDonald & Associates
GetWyz
Giant Spoon
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Gus
GUT Agency
HATCH Talent
Innocean Usa
Intelligent Animals
JOAN Creative
Jones Knowles Ritchie
Lafayette American
Leo NY, Saatchi NY, The Community NY, Publicis Groupe
Lola North America
Manifest LLC
Martin*
McKinney
Microsoft
Mighty Recruiting
MKG
Mono
Mother
Multiply
Nonfiction Research
OBE (On Board Experiential)
Ogilvy/Grey
OK Cool
Omnicom Production
Opinionated/ Tombras
Pereira O’Dell
Planet Propaganda
Publicis Creative Agencies
Publix Super Markets
R/GA
Rethink
RPA Advertising
Solomon Page
SYLVAIN
Tangerine
TBWA\Media Arts Lab
Team One
Terri & Sandy
The Daly Connective
The Farmer’s Dog
Two Birds Creative Co.
VML
Weber Shandwick
WHITE64
Wieden+Kennedy NY
Wieden+Kennedy Portland
Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai
Wonderstrike, LLC
Internships
We’ll give you the tools to help you land an internship in the summer between your first and second years at agencies and companies doing some of the industry’s best work.
More about Internships
You’re not required to do an internship, but we’ll provide you with the tools and resources to help you land a great one if you choose to.
Each year, we receive hundreds of summer intern requests from agencies and companies that know the rigor of our program, providing a place for our students to dive into the work and make significant contributions.When it’s time, we’ll curate and organize internship opportunities in one place so you can search by discipline, city, or agency/company and then decide where to apply.
These are always paid internships, and they’ll provide you with the opportunity to apply what you learn during your first year, make professional connections that will help you throughout your career, and potentially get work produced. You won’t just be making coffee.
See where current students are interning this summer
Art Directors
Fiona Gallegos – Leo, Chicago
Stephanie Gin – NVE Experience, NYC
Brianna Knight – Momentum, NYC
Ketaki Kulkarn – BCG Brighthouse, Atlanta
Cassidy Lee – TDA, Boulder
Lila Purtell – Erich & Kallman, SF
Alex Shesh – Dentsu, NYC
Maria Stepanyan – Publicis, Armenia
Sophia Underwood – Havas, NYC
Juliana Vieira – Potential Energy Coalition + Cannes Roger Hatchuel Academy
Natalie Wolpert – Kastner, LA
Copywriters
Kathryn Blessington – Momentum, NYC
Lexi Dixon – /prompt, remote
Thad Dombrowski – Potential Energy Coalition
Chy Gonzalez – GSD&M, Austin
Nick Luna – Erich & Kallman, SF
Molly Nealon – Digitas, Boston
Dana Przybocki – WG Pictures/ LA
Zen Southam-Gerow – TDA, Boulder
Bruce Wan – Momentum, NYC
Creative Brand Managers
Emma Foy – Sweet Talk Strategy, RVA
Rachel Grose – Denstu, NYC
Anna Hansohn – Leo, NYC
Srija Kothakonda – Savara Hospitality, RVA
Serena Loomba – Dotted Line Agency, RVA
Sarah Mady – Leo, NYC
Jake McKay – Droga5, NYC
Reagan Mann – Saatchi, NYC
Rachel Tierney – Saatchi, NYC
Tomas Williamson – Droga5, NYC
Strategy
Sami Davis – TBWA Worldwide, New Zealand
Leah Glass – Dentsu, NYC
Jess Ligon – Leo, Chicago
Cannes Lions Festival Study Abroad Program
Known as the “Oscars of Advertising,” the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the largest festival for creative communications, advertising, and related fields. Through the Brandcenter’s Cannes Lions Festival Study Abroad Program, students have the opportunity to learn from industry thought leaders, digital innovators, and marketers.
More about our Cannes Study Abroad Program
Our Cannes program is not required, but the program takes place over the summer and offers a unique experience to travel to France, attend the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and network with and learn from industry leaders.
The program is open to all graduate and undergraduate VCU students, as well as non-VCU college students, and requires work pre-and post-festival.
See which Class of 2027 students are attending this summer
Creative Brand Management
Katie Payne
Srija Kothakonda
Strategy
Austin Archer
Kennon Cummings
Tomas Linquist
Laurence Walker
Brandcenter Alumni Network
The community you join as a Brandcenter student keeps growing with you long after you graduate. It’s a powerful, built-in network that delivers a form of career ROI extending well beyond your diploma. In our latest Alumni Salary Survey, 70% of respondents from said that a Brandcenter alum or connection has helped them land a job, and 84% have used at least one Brandcenter alum resource since graduating.
“Getting accepted into the Brandcenter is a beginning—a launching point for a lifelong journey. It’s not just about graduating, or landing a first job, or even creating a Super Bowl spot. It’s about finding a path that’s right for you.”
While you’re first job out after graduation is cause for celebration, your long-term career trajectory matters even more. The combination of portfolio development, mentorship, and an active alumni network you receive at Brandcenter is designed to help you build a career that grows over time.
Where Brandcenter grads work
Brandcenter alumni work on behalf of the world’s biggest brands, at some of the world’s most creative companies, and at leading advertising, design, and innovation agencies, consultancies, and firms. They also create their own agencies and consultancies. Browse our alumni-owned agencies directory here.
“Brandcenter’s reputation got my foot in the door at great places to work, and what I learned at Brandcenter kept me in those places.”
Aaron Wiggan (Strategy, 2007), VP of Brand / Seattle Kraken
brands our grads make work for
agencies our grads work for
Average Alum Salaries and Job Titles by Concentration and Career Level
Our Alumni Salary Survey, fielded every two years, captures our graduates’ average starting salaries, career trajectories, and more. While titles can differ at individual agencies and companies, we’ve gathered the top job titles to give an idea of potential career trajectory. See the full results below.
