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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?

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, degees?
Who gave them advice? What do they wish they'd done differently?
Answers are in the REPORT.

SURVEY for grads only
Login for DEC. 2009 grads

Bachelor's, associate's degrees only.
Want survey RESULTS?
Anyone can view REPORTS

30-second to 5-minute survey:

Takes 30 seconds to five minutes to do the survey. Go now!

  • Only for Virginia Tech bachelor's & associate's degree grads!
  • PID + password required so only VT grads are surveyed.
  • Access to the survey is based on the completion term in your Application For Degree (AFD) record with the Office of the University Registrar.
  • Pssssst: Trying to log in to the survey will not give you the report!
  • Responses are confidential: Data reported by university, college, major. No individual identifying info shared with anyone.
  • Quick survey: Only 30 seconds to answer the first question. Decide what else you want to answer; takes five minutes total.

WHO is surveyed and WHEN...

  • All Virginia Tech grads who complete bachelor's or associate's degrees in the ACADEMIC YEAR. Commencement sub-cohorts are surveyed from prior to commencement to six months out:
    December grads: survey open November to early-June.
    May+summer grads: survey open mid-April to mid-November.
  • About the 2009-2010 survey.
  • About the now-closed 2008-2009 survey.

Will we survey master's degree graduates?

ANNUAL REPORT:

web documents

Options to view for university, by college and by major, and to view prior years' reports.
Latest report: 08-09 grads
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2008-2009 Executive Summary (MS Word docx).

SIX-YEAR SUMMARIES:

The multi-year summaries are PDF files.

PDF format. Total university data.
Includes results from academic years: 08-09 through 03-04

Questions?

Future reports?

The 2009-2010 cohort survey will be completed in November 2010. We carefully proofread and compile results. If all goes according to plan, we expect to publish that report to before Feb. 2011.

 

VT grads helping other Hokies: VT CareerLink
  • 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.

 

Would we consider surveying graduate students?
  • We would like to collect post-graduation salary data for graduate students, particularly master's degree graduates, who are employed at completion of the graduate degree; and we would like to report that by major.
  • However, we only report salary medians for majors with at least four responses.
  • If you view Degrees Conferred by Academic Degree Level, Major from the Office of Institutional Research, you see the number of master's degrees conferred for each major, by college, each academic year. For 07-08, in over 50 master's majors (75%) fewer than 20 degrees were conferred, and in only 17 master's majors were more than 20 degrees conferred. In three colleges, all of the master's degree majors have fewer than 20 degrees conferred per year.
  • Factor in the counts: total number of grads, respondents, employed respondents, employed respondents who provide salary: For undergrads that has come to 1/3 of the total.
    • We get 70% response rate, if we're lucky. Well, it's not luck; to get a 70% response rate for undergraduates, we have to make approximately 14 requests to non-respondents over a several-month period. So it's work, not luck.
    • For total university, fewer than 60% of respondents report employment.
    • For total university, approximately 80% of employed respondents provide salary data.
    • Thus for graduate majors with fewer than 15 graduates per year, it's likely we would not receive sufficient responses to report a median.
  • So it's not that this is not doable; it's an equation, and it's a very large undertaking that could yield a low return for investment. A report showing a lot of asterisks — perhaps for up to 75% of the graduate majors, and in some cases for whole colleges — for "insufficient responses" wouldn't be very satisfying to us or to you.
  • In the meantime, master's students wondering about 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.

 

 

Related Q&A:

Want to help or advise students or other grads?

Qs about graduation issues? See University Registrar FAQs.

 

ANNUAL REPORTS online:

Viewable by anyone!

web documents

Current instrument and methodology:

2008-2009

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006

2004-2005

2003-2004

Prior instrument & methodology:

2002-2003

2001-2002

2000-2001

1999-2000

1998-1999

1997-1998

1996-1997

1995-1996

REPORTS published in print:

These can be viewed at Career Services during office hours.

1994-1995

1993-1994