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GradLeaders offers two versions of The Outcomes Survey® with varying feature sets based on your target audience:

	STUDENTS: First Destination Survey	ALUMNI: Current Occupation Survey
Audience	Graduating Students	Alumni
Timeline	Real-time (at graduation, 3, 6 and 12 months) and flexible	Flexible (at 3, 5, 10 or 30 years post graduation)
Response Type	Updatable Response	Single Response
Cohorts	By graduating class	Individual or multiple class years
Question Sets	Career Outcomes, Career Search Engagement, Experiential Learning, Satisfaction and Motivations	Current Occupation, Interim Occupations, First Destination and Career Motivations
Custom Questions	Up to 10 included
Data Sources	Direct response and secondary source
Reporting Standards	Meets NACE, NUBS and MBA CSEA standards and addresses federal reporting priorities
Comparable	National Data at 6 and 12 months

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The Outcomes Survey is an online tool for gathering employment and graduate school admissions data from new college graduates based upon prevailing national demands and standards.

Graduates can be surveyed regarding the following topics:

First destination occupation and graduate school admissions outcomes
Engagement in career exploration and job search activities
Experiential education’s role in securing their first destination occupation
Satisfaction with their first destination occupation
Motivation for pursuing a college degree and occupation
Custom questions: each institution will have the opportunity to create and ask a set of up to 10 questions unique to that institution.

RATIONALE

Institutional accountability for college student outcomes is a top priority from the kitchen table all the way up to the White House. Students and their parents are scrutinizing the return on investment in higher education and are seeking data to inform their decision-making related to admissions acceptance and major selection. Efforts are underway at the US Department of Education to tie financial aid eligibility to “gainful employment” outcomes. The White House College Scorecard, the Rubio-Wyden-Warner Student Right to Know Before You Go Act and the DOE’s Title IV Federal Student Aid Programs – Gainful Employment in a Recognized Profession Proposed Rule clearly illustrate that all colleges and universities must prepare to respond to demands for outcomes data. The Outcomes Survey has been designed to deliver outcomes data in a manner that meets the institutional needs of US colleges and universities while creating a national standard for first destination outcomes data-gathering.

METHODOLOGY

Outcomes data is collected primarily via an online survey, administered to all graduates immediately prior to graduation and updated at multiple intervals after graduation for a period of up to one year. Graduates are prompted to update their contact information and enter or update employment/occupational status and graduate school admissions outcomes data that has changed since their last submission.

Graduates respond via desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.

The average response rate using the online survey is 52% (Spring 2014). Response rates as high as 100% can be achieved when institutions fully engage with The Outcomes Survey® and its response generation tools and resources. Data collection can be further enhanced using administrator entry tools for recording secondary source data.

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