<p>Does anyone know where you can look up % of graduating seniors and the % who were offered full time employment and % that accepted those offers? Would I need to call each school (ie: career office) for this information, or is it online? Can you get it broken down by school and/or major? I know where I can get % of those who go onto graduate programs.</p>
<p>Career Services is the place to find out that information. Check their web link at each of the colleges - it may be posted. If not, you will have to call.</p>
<p>Most places are pretty secretive as it varies greatly by department. If you ask me, this is what rankings should be based on....</p>
<p>I notice that if one calls career services they are kind enough to offer the info that they have. At one school I needed to contact institutional research. I have called 3 schools (it is time consuming). The info is really startling, but not scientific. They rely upon surveys that maybe 50-60% of grads return. I wonder if the the other 40-50% are unemployed? Anyway, out of those completing the survey at one school: 1/3 had jobs at graduation and 3/4 were employed in 6 mos. They do not tell you whether they are employed at a fast food place making french fries, or are using their degree!</p>
<p>School #2-50% of students responded from their biz school and 60% had job offers and 40% accepted the job offer. 10% went straight to grad school, 5% went into their family business, 5% were self employed. These results are 6 mos. after graduation.</p>
<p>School #3- 52% in my son's anticipated biz major responded. Out of those 8% went to grad school, and 92% were employed (85% full time, and 8% part time). Average starting salary was 37,900 in this major. Other majors in this biz school had 5% seeking employment and 82% employed ft at an ave. salary of 33-35,000. These salaries, btw, are from the NY area, not a rural area.</p>
<p>Typically business and engineering schools at major state schools are very upfront with this data. After that you need to dig. Very little data for liberal arts grads--even at big state schools.</p>
<p>You can do a google search listing senior surveys and some of the colleges will give you links to their surveys.</p>
<p>The office of insitutional research will also have the information. sometimes you can just type in senior survey in the search field and the info comes up.</p>
<p>You must keep in mind however that college students take gap years,travel, volunteer, do non-profit work etc, before going off to graduate or professional school so you may not come up with a comprehensive listing. It could also be hard finding the most recent year's data</p>
<p>because students self report the information (some just do not fill out the form so you may still have no idea as to what a large percentage of the graduating class is doing.</p>
<p>Dartmouth class of 2003 senior survey</p>
<p>bates senior survey 2001</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bates.edu/senior-survey-2001.xml%5B/url%5D">http://www.bates.edu/senior-survey-2001.xml</a></p>
<p>rinceton</p>
<p>Umass-Amherst
<a href="http://www.umass.edu/oapa/reports/senior_survey/%5B/url%5D">http://www.umass.edu/oapa/reports/senior_survey/</a></p>
<p>Earlham
<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Eir/senior_surveys.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.earlham.edu/~ir/senior_surveys.htm</a></p>
<p>U Colorado-Boulder</p>
<p>G-town</p>
<p>Northwestern
<a href="http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/reports/SeniorSurvey2002.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/reports/SeniorSurvey2002.pdf</a></p>
<p>Ponoma</p>
<p>Sybbie, thank you.</p>
<p>I think this type of data is more likely to be misused than helpful due to many of the issues that Sybbie raised. The gist of the argument is that the data lacks reliability and validity. Reliability problems exist in terms of the senior survey information varying from school to school and even when the surveys are administered in a particular college. Validity problems exist as there is no way to adequately ensure that the information is truthful and adequately represents the student body. While not surprsing that many business and engineering programs present such data as they often see themselves as professional training programs, liberal arts programs are not job training programs and therefore this kind of data is irrelevant to their mission.</p>