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Includes December 2000, May 2001 and summer 2001
bachelor's degree graduates.
Data up to six months after completion of degrees. |
| Methodology |
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Career Services sponsors
an annual survey of students who have applied (through the Registrar's
Office) for their bachelor's degrees. The survey is to elicit
solid data about the post-graduation employment plans and graduate
school attendance plans of these bachelor's degree applicants.
The Center for Survey Research was contracted to collect this
data by administering a brief annual telephone survey to all
undergraduate degree applicants. |
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The academic year for this
survey is defined as Fall 2000, Spring 2001, and Summer I &
II 2001. The population surveyed was all students who applied
to complete undergraduate degrees at the ends of these terms. |
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A two-stage survey administration
was used for both the fall and spring/summer graduating groups.
The first stage was a phone call prior to graduation to identify
students with definite full-time employment or graduate school
plans. Those students without definite plans at Stage I
received a follow-up call six months later (Stage II). Also
included in the Stage II population are students who were non-respondents
or unreachable during the Stage I contact. It should be
noted that there were a number of students for whom no current
phone or address information was available through university
records or other conventional directory sources. These students
were coded "untraceable" and dropped from the eligible
population for Stage I and the follow-up population for Stage
II. |
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After completion of data
collection for both the Fall 2000 and Spring/Summer 2001 degree
applicants, it was discovered that 45 students were included in
both populations. The more current information for each of these
students was retained, and duplicate data was deleted. This
resulted in 4,852 completed interviews -- 85% of the class of
2001. |
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