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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?

2011-2012 SURVEY for Dec 2011 & May+Summer 2012 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.

 

SURVEY
for grads only		 Want survey RESULTS?
Anyone can view REPORTS.
Survey for 2011-12 grads ACADEMIC YEAR REPORTS: MULTI-YEAR SUMMARIES:
Survey for bachelor's & associate's degree graduates only. university | college | major data
one academic year per 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 in the ACADEMIC YEAR.
  • Sub-cohorts surveyed pre-commencement to six months after:
    December grads: survey open Nov. to early-June.
    May+sum grads: survey open mid-Apr to mid-Nov.
  • About the 2011-2012 survey.
  • 2010-2011 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.

2010-2011 | Exec summary pdf

2009-2010 | Exec Summary pdf

2008-2009 | Exec Summary pdf

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

 

Questions about the report?

Frequently asked questions.

 

Eight years: 03-04 to 10-11

[PDF format]

Firm plans univ|colleges
employed & continuing education

Highlights university data

Salary medians univ|colleges

How grads found jobs univ|colleges

Grads wished they had ... regrets | university data

Top employers most-reported by employed grads.
View annual reports for list, by undergraduate major, showing job title, employer, location.

Top grad schools institutions most-reported by grads continuing education.
View annual reports for list, by undergraduate major, showing degree, program, institution, location.

 

Data for colleges | majors:
View annual report(s).
In report select view:
univ | college | major

 

Hokies helping other Hokies
  • 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.
  • But you can! The Virginia Tech Alumni Association sponsors Hokie Nation Network, professional and social online networking for the Virginia Tech community. Tell other Hokies about your career experiences and answer questions.

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Would we consider surveying graduate students?
  • We would like to have post-graduation salary data for master's degree graduates who are employed at completion of the graduate degree; and we would like to report that by major.
  • However, most master's degree programs (75%) graduate fewer than 20 students per year.
    We only report salary medians for majors with at least four responses.
    We do 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 from the Office of Institutional Research. See the numbers 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.
    • Our response rate for undergraduates is based on months of work and approximately 14 requests to non-respondents over a several-month period.
    • 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, we calculate graduates would not provide sufficient responses to report a median.
  • Trying to get salary data by graduate program would likely result in a report showing a lot of asterisks for "insufficient responses" — perhaps for up to 75% of the graduate majors, and in some cases for whole colleges — this would be a vast undertaking with results not satisfying to us or to you.
  • Because of the small number of graduate students in most departments, and their close connection to their faculty, we believe the academic departments are in the best position to know the post-graduation status of their graduate students.
  • Some graduate departments provide post-graduate information about their graduates on the department website. Look there.
  • 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.