Choose the right outcomes data collection and employment reporting tool for your unique office needs.

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

	First Destination Survey	Alumni Current Occupation Survey
Audience	New Graduating Students	Alumni
Purpose	Ask students about their current activities throughout the year following graduation and enable them to update information as their situation changes	Use as a follow-up tool to gather outcomes data on older classes plus ask alumni about their current occupation and other jobs they’ve had since graduation
Suggested Timeline	Real-time around graduation plus 3, 6 and 12 months after	Flexible over 6 months for 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, Motivations, plus Custom Questions Available	Current Occupation, Interim Occupations, First Destination, Career Motivations, plus Custom Questions Available
Data Sources	Direct response and secondary source
Reporting Standards	Meets NACE and MBA CSEA standards and addresses federal reporting priorities
Comparable	National Data at 6 and 12 months

Simplified Pricing for Schools and Graduating Classes of Any Size

The Outcomes Survey® pricing starts at just $2,500 for up to 500 new graduates or 1,000 alumni surveyed. After that, costs are based off the number of additional contacts surveyed. There’s also a one-time implementation fee for new customers. Need additional help? GradLeaders offers delegated admin and other professional services to outsource data collection, outreach, and reporting as well.

The Outcomes Survey® is often far more cost effective than doing it yourself and can be much less than the annual base salary of a survey research analyst. Survey researchers earned an average salary of $59,170, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. PayScale.com offers similar national data that states the average base salary for a survey researcher to be $58,667 per year.

Make the Outcomes Data Collection Process and Employment Reporting as Easy as 1-2-3. How?

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 to the step-by-step online survey via desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device. 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 additional custom questions unique to that institution.

Our Methodology Works!

The average response rate using The Outcomes Survey® is 52%. Response rates as high as 100% can be achieved when institutions fully engage with GradLeaders and our best practices and resources. Data collection can be further enhanced using administrator entry tools for recording secondary source data. Institutions that survey in real-time obtain better results!

89% of respondents who start The Outcomes Survey^® complete it
75% of respondents provide salary/compensation information
23% of respondents provide updates after graduation

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