HCOM graduates have entered and achieved notable success in teaching; counseling; college instruction (ESL, service learning, English, migrant education, journalism); city government; accreditation analysis; college outreach and advising; advertising; project management; paralegal; editing; entrepreneurial business; content development and research; grant writing; youth intervention; video production; consulting; public relations; and marketing.
The organizations hiring them have included CSUMB; YWCA of Monterey County; The Monterey County Weekly; Office for Assemblyman Simon Salinas; Department of Defense; Hampton-Brown Publishing; The Salinas Californian ; Aneas Creative Designs; Asian American Recovery Services; San José State University; River Oak Center for Children; Coalition of Homeless Services; John XXIII AIDS Ministry; American Color Graphics; CTB McGraw Hill; Heads Up Child Development Center; Hollister School District; St. Anthony Foundation; Gilroy High School; Carmel Highlands Hotel and Resort; El Teatro Campesino; Everett Alvarez High School; Greenfield High School; Northropp Grumman; Musgrave Marketing and Design; and Monterey County Administrative Services.
HCOM graduates have attended a variety of graduate institutions including: Stanford; CSU Humboldt; San José State; UC Berkeley; San Diego State; UC San Diego; Santa Clara; Mills College; San Francisco State; Claremont; Antioch; Yeshiva; Choevevei Torah; CSU Monterey Bay; CSU Sacramento; The New College of Law, San Francisco; Boise State; Monterey College of Law; Monterey Institute for International Studies; Boalt Law School; and Texas at Austin.
They have entered and achieved notable success in the following fields of graduate study: multicultural education; creative writing; cultural studies; American Studies; English; rhetoric and composition; rabbinical studies; journalism; communication studies; library and information services; social work; counseling; Pacific Rim and Asian studies; ethnic studies; Chicano Studies; Latin American studies; interdisciplinary studies; public policy; and law.