Graduates of the MIAP program hold positions as preservation specialists, research scholars, conservators, archivists, and curators in a variety of non-profit and for-profit institutions.
These are a few examples of positions held by MIAP students after graduation:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences / Los Angeles, CA - Print Trafficker
- American Museum of Natural History / New York, NY - Post-Graduate Fellow
- Appalshop / Whitesburg, KY - Archivist
- Audio Visual Preservation Solutions / New York, NY - Consultant
- Canyon Cinema / San Francisco, CA - Archivist
- CNN News Archive / New York, NY - Archivist
- David Byrne Archive: Todo Mundo / New York, NY - Audiovisual Archivist
- Democracy Now! / New York, NY - Archivist
- Electronic Arts Intermix / New York, NY - Media Collection Manager
- The Kitchen / New York, NY - Archivist
- Museum of the Moving Image / New York, NY - Registrar
- Museo del Cine / Buenos Aires, Argentina - Director
- Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival / New York, NY - Coordinator
- National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program: A Collaborative Initiative of the Library of Congress, New York, NY - Research Scholar
- New York City Transit Museum, New York, NY - Archivist
- New York Public Library: Library of Performing Arts, Wilson Project / New York, NY - Audio-Visual Archivist
- New York Public Library: Dance Division / New York, NY - Archivist
- New York University: Bobst Library / New York, NY - Mellon-Funded Moving Image Preservation Fellow
- New York University: Bobst Library / New York, NY - Audiovisual Lab Manager
- NorthEast Historic Film / Bucksport, ME - Technical Services Director
- ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive, Los Angeles, CA - Archivist
- Pacific Film Archives / Berkeley, CA - Archivist
- Public Broadcasting Service - Project Archivist & Preservationist
- Premier Retail Networks - Archivist
- Rhode Island Historical Society / Providence, RI - Film Archivist
- Smithsonian Institution: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Washington, DC - Research Fellow
- Standby Program / New York, NY - Preservation Coordinator
- Stanford University Libraries / Palo Alto, CA - MIAP/IMLS Post-Graduate Fellow
- StoryCorps / New York, NY - Historias Archive Coordinator
- Towers Productions, Inc. / Chicago, IL - Chief Creative Officer
- Ugen Media / New York, NY - Business Development
- University of Virginia Libraries / Charlottesville, VA - MIAP/IMLS Post-Graduate Fellow
- US Tennis Association / White Plains, NY - Archivist
- Washington University Libraries / St. Lousi, MO - MIAP/IMLS Post-Graduate Fellow
- Witness Media Archives / Brooklyn, NY - AV Archivist

















