Graduate Survey Report &
Supplement with Additional Outcome Information
Class of 2006

The Career Center resumed the responsibility of the College’s Graduate Survey and Report, beginning with the Class of 2006 (August ’05, December ’05 and May ‘06). The purpose of this project was to collect employment and graduate/professional school outcome information and to solicit feedback from graduates about their educational experience.

A total of 1,795 graduates from the Class of 2006 were uploaded from Banner, the College’s Student Information System. However, 193 graduates were deemed unreachable because of inaccurate or missing contact information.* After implementing a variety of outreach efforts, including several mailings of a newly designed self-mailer, utilization of “mystrose” e-mail and on-line survey options, as well as thousands of follow-up phone call attempts, 369 of the remaining 1,602 graduates responded to the survey. This is a response rate of 23%. Of those that responded, 5% responded on-line, 26% through hard-copy mailings, 69% through our phone outreach.

To supplement graduate outcome information, we utilized information already available in Banner and reached out to faculty, administrators, and staff asking them to share employment and graduate school outcome information for non-respondents. This resulted in employment and graduate/professional school information for an additional 369 graduates, a total of 738 of the 1,602 graduates with contact information. This is a response rate of 46%.

* Unfortunately, because of a college policy, our bulk mailings were sent without a return to sender option so mailings that had incorrect or forwarding expired status were discarded by the post office. Since we never received the undeliverable mailings, there is no way to determine the number of graduates that did not receive the survey.

Based on this year’s experience we have several recommendations for future Graduate Surveys. For the Class of 2007, we plan to review the survey and timeline, send mailings with return to sender/forwarding expired options, utilize eCareerCenter for e-mail, on-line survey and placement reporting from Career Center employers, and continue to collect outcome information for non-respondents from Banner, faculty, administrators and staff. For the Class of 2008, we hope to receive support to integrate the Graduate Survey into the graduation process which would increase the response for questions related to the satisfaction of the educational experience and allow us to collect preliminary outcome information that could be verified and/or updated during a year out follow-up process.

This report is a result of the efforts of many individuals. We wish to extend our appreciation to the members of the Class of 2006, the College’s faculty, administrators and staff, Alumni Relations & Institutional Advancement, Information Technology Services, Public Relations, as well as the Career Center’s staff, graduate assistants and work study students. A special thank you to Danielle Ruddy for her assistance on this project.

Please direct inquiries or comments to:
Michele Osborne
Director, Career Center
osbornem@strose.edu
(518) 454-5141

Graduate Survey

Summary

Employment

List of Employers

Continuing Education

List of Schools

Supplement

Summary

Employment

List of Employers

Continuing Education

List of Schools