University Graduate Career Surveys

ucbalumnus · January 11, 2013, 2:25pm

Case Western Reserve University: [A</a> Survey of Recent Graduates - CWRU Career Center](<a href=“Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education | Case Western Reserve University”>Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education | Case Western Reserve University)

ucbalumnus · January 15, 2013, 11:48pm

Rose Hulman Institute of Technology: [Recruitment</a> & Employment Statistics](<a href=“404 | Rose-Hulman”>404 | Rose-Hulman)

GoalsOriented · January 16, 2013, 3:28am

momofthree:

Both sources are inaccurate and extremely biased, unfortunately. The alumni magazine is only going to talk about their most successful students. And, the NACE report is clearly fixed, whether they are doing something on their own to make the numbers positive (so as to maintain their good relations with the educational institution establishment), simply accepting “cleaned up” university numbers as-is, or both.

During my very first year in college I paid a great deal of attention to the NACE reports and believed them myself, and continued to pay attention to them throughout my college career. However, I think it is pretty clear that the vast majority of college graduates are not going into 45k/year or better jobs, yet that is the average that the NACE consistently reports just about every year. The relatively small amount that get significantly higher salaries are not enough to make that “average” accurate. The New York Times conducted their own research a few years ago, and they found the median college graduate salary to be around 25k / year, and this was coming from an organization based in the most expensive metropolitan city in the nation.

Unfortunately, I relied heavily on the NACE’s data for my college major, and one of their most “in-demand” majors turned out to be one of the least in-demand in the real world. A recent Yahoo article, which although not a trusted source of accuracy either, even directly contradicted previous NACE reports, listing certain majors that the NACE claims is “in-demand” as being majors that employers dislike most (as they prefer other majors for those fields).

ucbalumnus · January 16, 2013, 11:34am

Or was this due to the job market for that industry being at a high point when you were a freshman, and then going into an industry downturn by the time you graduated?

GoalsOriented · January 16, 2013, 8:57pm

Maybe that can be the problem in some cases, but it was not the case for me (Information Technology). Also, I chose my major less than two years before graduating. And even if a field was theoretically on the downward part of a cycle, that still does not explain why both in the real-world and in future reports from non-NACE sources, employers state that they strongly prefer a different major for the same exact job, whether that field is on a downward cycle or not. This is on top of the fact that NACE’s entire credibility is already highly questionable based on the super-inflated salary data they give. It is not like they are saying the average Engineering major gets 45k/year. They are saying the average college graduate, when including the salaries of Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, Humanities, etc… is 45k / year. A huge amount of business majors don’t even make that much coming straight out of college.

ucbalumnus · January 16, 2013, 11:47pm

When did you graduate? IT has pretty huge ups and downs. (But also, IT ≠ CS, although CS also has pretty huge ups and downs.)

ucbalumnus · January 17, 2013, 2:37am

Summary:

Various colleges and universities in Virginia: [WG02:</a> Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution](<a href=“http://research.schev.edu/eom/opportunity02_report.asp]WG02:”>WG02: Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution)

General: [Center</a> on Education and the Workforce -](<a href=“http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/]Center”>What’s It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors - CEW Georgetown)

andy09 · January 24, 2013, 8:28pm

[Reports</a> | Texas A&M Career Center](<a href=“http://careercenter.tamu.edu/guides/reports/?sn=prospectivestudents]Reports”>http://careercenter.tamu.edu/guides/reports/?sn=prospectivestudents)
Texas A&M University: sortable by major and graduation semester

ucbalumnus · February 2, 2013, 8:52pm

Updated (Texas A&M added, corrections to some others):

Various colleges and universities in Virginia: [WG02:</a> Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution](<a href=“http://research.schev.edu/eom/opportunity02_report.asp]WG02:”>WG02: Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution)
Various colleges and universities: [Welcome</a> to CollegeMeasures.org - CollegeMeasures.org](<a href=“http://www.collegemeasures.org/]Welcome”>http://www.collegemeasures.org/)

General: [Center</a> on Education and the Workforce -](<a href=“http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/]Center”>What’s It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors - CEW Georgetown)

dadinator · February 22, 2013, 1:42pm

The RPI links are old. Here are new ones:

<a href=“Students | Career and Professional Development”>Students | Career and Professional Development;

<a href=“Home | Career and Professional Development”>Home | Career and Professional Development;

Also, here is Stevens Institute of Technology:

<a href=“https://www.stevens.edu/sit/sites/default/files/Class_of_2012_Outcomes_Report_Final.pdf[/url]”>https://www.stevens.edu/sit/sites/default/files/Class_of_2012_Outcomes_Report_Final.pdf</a>

And Syracuse University:

<a href=“Home - Career Services – Syracuse University”>Home - Career Services – Syracuse University;

And Worcester Polytechnic Institute:

<a href=“http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CDC/salarysurvey.html[/url]”>http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CDC/salarysurvey.html</a>

And Lehigh University:

<a href=“http://careerservices.sites.lehigh.edu/docs/Undergraduate%20Placement%20Report%202011.pdf[/url]”>http://careerservices.sites.lehigh.edu/docs/Undergraduate%20Placement%20Report%202011.pdf</a>

University of Michigan:

<a href=“Which MBA Format is Right for Me? | Michigan Ross”>Which MBA Format is Right for Me? | Michigan Ross; (Ross Business School)

<a href=“http://careercenter.umich.edu/employers/salary-data-liberal-arts-majors[/url]”>http://careercenter.umich.edu/employers/salary-data-liberal-arts-majors</a> (Liberal Arts)

<a href=“http://career.engin.umich.edu/employers/oncampus/guide-for-recruiters.pdf[/url]”>http://career.engin.umich.edu/employers/oncampus/guide-for-recruiters.pdf</a> (Engineering)

ucbalumnus · February 23, 2013, 12:39am

Updated:

Various colleges and universities in Virginia: [WG02:</a> Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution](<a href=“http://research.schev.edu/eom/opportunity02_report.asp]WG02:”>WG02: Wages of Graduates, List Programs By Institution)
Various colleges and universities: [Welcome</a> to CollegeMeasures.org - CollegeMeasures.org](<a href=“http://www.collegemeasures.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.collegemeasures.org)

General: [Center</a> on Education and the Workforce -](<a href=“http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/]Center”>http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/)
General: <a href=“http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/content/Chasing_American_Dream_Report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/content/Chasing_American_Dream_Report.pdf</a>

dadinator · February 24, 2013, 11:43am

Thanks for putting this list together, ucbalumnus.

Very helpful and useful information. Great to have it all in one place.

Ghost73 · March 3, 2013, 7:23pm

Michigan State:
[Career</a> Services Network - Destination Survey](<a href=“http://careernetwork.msu.edu/destination-survey-2]Career”>http://careernetwork.msu.edu/destination-survey-2)
Business:
<a href=“Russell Palmer Career Management Center - MSU Broad College of Business”>Russell Palmer Career Management Center - MSU Broad College of Business;

GrayishWater · March 20, 2013, 8:57pm

This is extremely useful, I can’t believe I didn’t have access to this when I was selecting colleges to apply to.

faisee · March 30, 2013, 3:22am

great work i like

Trinity7 · April 9, 2013, 2:03pm

Thanks a lot UCBalum for the compilation.

Wish there is a database, where one could plug a major, and a few universities under consideration, and one can obtain a comparative output across the universities.

Since these are results from surveys, they may not be standardized in output; don’t know if they lend themselves to easy data mining.

Genebernice · April 10, 2013, 7:06am

Unemployment doesn’t depend on the university in which they have studied. It depends on their talent.

RacinReaver · April 17, 2013, 10:31am

Here’s Cornell’s Engineering college: [Cornell</a> Engineering: Post Graduate Reports](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/resources/career_services/students/statistics/postgrad_reports.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/resources/career_services/students/statistics/postgrad_reports.cfm)

ucb, do you know how many schools report this info for their PhD grads? I know my undergrad did, and I’m now I’m really disappointed that seemingly nobody else does. :(

ucbalumnus · April 17, 2013, 11:00am

MIT is the only one that I recall offhand that surveys PhD graduates.

Some others do have master’s degree graduates in their surveys.

RacinReaver · April 17, 2013, 2:11pm

I was dealing with my career center the other day, and I’m actually pretty frustrated they don’t collect the information even within the school itself. You’d think they’d want it, because it would really help with salary negotiations for all students.

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