The 234 members of the inaugural class at Duke Kunshan University have either found jobs or entered further studies.

According to the career report issued recently by the Sino-American university, its first undergraduate class consists of 173 Chinese students and 61 international students, 82.2 percent of whom are pursuing postgraduate studies, 15.1 percent of whom have sought employment, with the remainder choosing to volunteer, become entrepreneurs or enter military service.

Among those pursuing further studies, six obtained prestigious global scholarships, such as Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford, Yenching scholarship at Peking University and Schwarzman scholarship at Tsinghua University.

Around 80 percent of the Chinese graduates who chose to pursue further studies obtained offers from Ivy League universities in the United States, which each receiving an average of 4.3 offers.

Students that chose to enter the job market received job offers from top employers including McKinsey & Company, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs.

The highest graduate salary secured outside China is $138,000 per year and the highest in China is 400,000 yuan ($57,800) per year.