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Post-Graduation Survey and Report

What undergraduates do after graduation

After the mortarboard, where are the B.A., B.S., & A.S. grads?
SURVEY login for
2012-2013 grads.

B.A., B.S., and A.S. grads:
Who are their employers? How did they connect with them?
Where are they continuing education? What programs, degrees?
Who gave them advice? What do they wish they'd done differently?
Answers are in the REPORT.

The Post-Graduation REPORT [based on the survey] is used by the Virginia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness: Student Consumer Information to meet federal requirements for disclosure and reporting of data on "student outcomes," specifically employment and graduate/professional school "placement" following the undergraduate degree.

SURVEY
for grads only		 Want survey RESULTS?
Anyone can view REPORTS.
Survey for 2012-2013 grads ACADEMIC YEAR REPORTS: MULTI-YEAR SUMMARIES:
Survey for bachelor's & associate's degree graduates only. university | college | major data
in each academic year report		 university | college data
compilations

30-sec to 5-min survey:

  • PID + password login so only VT grads access survey.
  • Survey access based on completion term in your Application For Degree (AFD) with University Registrar.
  • Responses confidential: Data rept by univ, college, major. No individ. identifying info shared with anyone.

WHO is surveyed, WHEN...

  • All VT grads who complete undergraduate degrees.
  • Timing based on graduation term in the ACADEMIC YEAR.
  • Sub-cohort surveyed pre-commencement to six months after:
    December grads: survey open Nov. to early-June.
    May+sum grads: survey open mid-Apr to early-Nov.
  • About the 2012-2013 grads survey.
  • 2011-2012 survey is closed.

Will we survey master's degree graduates?

Related Q&A:

Want to provide networking help to other students or grads?

Qs about graduation issues?
See University Registrar FAQs.

2011-2012 | Exec summary pdf
  Quick view:
  College response % & Ns
  Majors response % & Ns
  Empl & Cont Educ by college

2010-2011 | Exec summary pdf
   | Response rates by major

2009-2010 | Exec summary pdf

2008-2009 | Exec summary pdf

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006

2004-2005

2003-2004

Subset Report: VTCC

Prior instrument / methodology:

2002-2003

2001-2002

2000-2001

1999-2000

1998-1999

1997-1998

1996-1997

1995-1996

Questions about the report?

Frequently asked questions.

Methodology

NINE YEARS
[2003-2004 to 2011-2012]
[PDF format]

Highlights university data

Firm plans univ & colleges
employed & continuing education

Schools most-reported by grads continuing education.

Employers most-reported by employed grads.

How empl'd grads found jobs
   University & colleges
   Graph university

Salary medians univ|colleges

Grads wished they had ... regrets | university data

To see major / college data:
View annual reports by year in middle column.
Within each report you can select view:
univ | college | major

Quick look: 1-page snapshot we prepared for parents of new students for 2013 Hokie Focus and summer orientation.

 

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  • Some of our wonderful grads comment that other students can contact them for advice.
  • We appreciate your offer! However, as promised, we don't share any individual info from the Post-Grad Survey — keeping our promise of confidentiality.
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Would we consider surveying graduate students?
  • While we would like to have post-graduation salary data for master's degree graduates who are employed at completion of the graduate degree, and to report that by major, numbers are insufficient to make that useful:
  • Most master's degree programs (over 75%) graduate fewer than 20 students per year.
    Source: Degrees Conferred by Academic Degree Level, Major, Office of Institutional Research.
    We only report salary medians for majors with at least four responses.
    The math: Factor in survey response rate, percent employed or continuing education, percent of employed who do not provide salary:
    For most graduate majors, graduates would not give sufficient data to report a salary median. The survey is huge undertaking that we will not conduct if it would result in little to nothing to show in terms of data by major.
  • For graduates by year, by college and major, by degree, view Degrees Conferred by Academic Degree Level, Major published by the Office of Institutional Research, which shows the numbers of master's degrees conferred for each major, by college, each academic year. For 2010-2011, master's degrees were conferred in 65 majors; in only 16 of those 65 majors (under 25%) were degrees conferred on 20 or more students. For over 75% of the graduate majors, degrees were conferred on fewer than 20 students, many in the single-digits. Only two colleges have more than three majors in which degrees are conferred on 20 or more graduates; two colleges have zero in that category.
  • Factor in the counts: total number of grads, respondents, employed respondents (vs. those continuing education or still seeking employment), employed respondents who provide salary: For undergrads that has come to a very small portion of the total number of grads (range by college 12% to 34%).
    • Our response rate for undergraduates is based on months of work and approximately 14 requests to non-respondents over a several-month period.
    • Variance by college (2010-2011):
      Percents of grads responding to survey 50% to 62%
      Percents of respondents reporting employment: 34% to 63%
      Percents of employed reporting salary data: 62% to 82%
      Percent of total grads for whom we have salary data: 12% to 34% (total university: 22%)
    • Thus for most graduate majors, and for some entire colleges, we would rationally predict insufficient data to report a median; thus a report showing predominantly asterisks for "insufficient responses" — this would be a vast undertaking with results not useful or satisfying to us or to you.
  • Where to inquire: Prospective and current master's students very legitimately researching salary information are advised to consult your department faculty who work with graduate students, including the graduate program coordinator in your department, and you can consult salary research sources.
    • Some graduate departments DO provide post-graduate-degree information and salary data about their graduates on the department website. Look there.
    • Because of the small number of graduate students in most academic departments, and their close connection to their faculty, we believe the academic departments are in the best position to know the post-graduate-degree status of their graduate students.
    • For graduate departments with larger enrollments, it is possible they may have sufficient data to publish medians.