First Destination Survey 2015-2016 ACADEMIC YEAR BACHELOR’S DEGREE GRADUATES
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First Destination Survey 2015-2016 ACADEMIC YEAR BACHELOR’S DEGREE GRADUATES 2015-2016 Academic Year Bachelor’s Degree Graduates | First Destination Report 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The 2015-2016 College of Arts + Sciences First Destination Survey report represents the collaborative efforts of professional and student staff of the Walter Center for Career Achievement. Appreciation and gratitude are extended to the individuals named below for their contributions toward the development of the following report. Tanner N. Terrell Kathleen Crabtree Associate Director, Assessment & Data Operations Assessment Intern Major: Psychology BA Rosemarie Lerma Minors: Spanish and Human Resources Assessment Graduate Assistant Major: Higher Education Ph.D. Mitzi Supper Assessment Intern Major: Informatics BS Minors: Marketing and IMP Graphic Design Jack Zhang Assessment Intern Majors: Cognitive Science BS and Economics BA Certificate: Liberal Arts & Management Program TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.2% Faculty/Staff 2.1% 2 Introduction Employer Records 78.8% 3 Survey Overview knowledge rate 23.7% Methods Social Media 73.1% 4 Student 5 Respondent Characteristics Reported 6 Distribution of Post-Graduation Plans 8 Response Rate by Major 32 Graduate School Data 33 Graduate School Admission Success Rate Degree Program 11 Employment Data 34 36 Degree Type 12 Employment Details 37 Graduate School Acceptance Locations 14 Employment Success Rate 38 Graduate School Information 15 Job Offer Information 18 Job Referral 19 Salary Information 40 Employment and Graduate 20 Employment by Industry School Success Rates 21 Employment Locations Overall Success Rate 23 Employers Hiring 2015-2016 41 Graduates 42 National Success Rate Comparison 43 Success Rates by Major/Division 47 Internship Information 48 Internship Information 49 Indiana Internship Providers 54 Domestic Internship Providers (excluding Indiana) 57 International Internship Providers 2015-2016 Academic Year Bachelor’s Degree Graduates | First Destination Report 1 SURVEY OVERVIEW | EMPLOYMENT DATA | GRADUATE SCHOOL DATA | EMPLOYMENT & GRADUATE SCHOOL SUCCESS RATES | INTERNSHIP INFORMATION INTRODUCTION Each year, the College of Arts + Sciences (the College) surveys graduating seniors with majors in the College regarding their post-graduation plans. The subsequent data has been provided to departments and schools within the College, and public reports like this one have been made available for the purpose of determining trends, strengths, areas of potential improvement, and ensuring transparency for students pursuing a degree from the College. While this report continues the vital legacy of gathering and making available information regarding the post-graduation success of College students, many changes occurred during the 2015-2016 Academic Year that will surely have a favorable effect on the success of future classes of liberal arts and sciences students at Indiana University Bloomington. Of those changes during 2015-2016 year, most significant was the development of a dedicated career services office for the College of Arts + Sciences. Beginning July 1, 2015, the former Career Development Center/Arts + Sciences Career Services office formerly detached to form two distinct offices in order to better serve student populations served by the former office: University Division students and College of Arts + Sciences students. Arts + Sciences Career Services was launched in August 2015 as the College’s dedicated career services office just in time for 2015-2016 Academic Year graduates. The office, now named the Walter Center for Career Achievement thanks to a generous gift from a College alumnus, used this inaugural year to reimagine and expand services available to students with majors in the College. This included a new organizational model, collaborative partnerships with academic departments, and the acquisition of new technology solutions aimed at delivering customized, timely information to all populations served by the office. One of the technology solutions germane to this report was the acquisition of a new post-graduation outcomes data collection and reporting tool known as the Career Analytics Platform (CAP). With this tool, the Walter Center is able to use a single tool across the College to solicit, collect, clean, analyze, and report data related to first destination as well as the internships and other experiences completed by College graduates. The standardized use of this software across the entire College provides students, staff, and faculty a single, cloud-based platform wherein any aforementioned population can report student outcomes and explore reported data as far back as the May 2012 graduating class and as recent as data that was reported only seconds ago. This allows all stakeholders in the College to answer their own questions about liberal arts and sciences graduates, removes barriers to sharing of data, and encourages a shared responsibility across the College for the success of each and every College graduate. The first graduating class to utilize the CAP was our May 2016 graduating class and we at the Walter Center are excited about the expanded data points that the software will allow us to report on in future First Destination Survey reports. Finally, this report is unique because it represents the second year that the College has tracked all three graduation terms (August, December, and May). As a result, this report features many year-over-year comparisons. The results are encouraging, as 2015-2016 saw gains in positive metrics across the board, including: employment and graduate school acceptance success rates, job satisfaction, career goal alignment, minimum educational requirements, full-time employment over part-time employment, and mean starting salary, among others. The information collected through this project has the potential to provide valuable insight into the variety of opportunities available to graduates of the College - as well as challenges facing current graduates. Please join with us in the process of continuing to improve student outcomes. Questions and ideas can be directed to Joe Lovejoy, Director of Career Services for the Walter Center for Career Achievement ([email protected]). Sincerely, Joe Lovejoy Director of Career Services 2 First Destination Report | 2015-2016 Academic Year Bachelor’s Degree Graduates SURVEY OVERVIEW 2015-2016 Academic Year Bachelor’s Degree Graduates | First Destination Report 3 SURVEY OVERVIEW | EMPLOYMENT DATA | GRADUATE SCHOOL DATA | EMPLOYMENT & GRADUATE SCHOOL SUCCESS RATES | INTERNSHIP INFORMATION METHODS OVERVIEW For the purpose of the first destination survey, graduates of the College were defined as undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program within the College who had applied for graduation one month prior to commencement ceremonies for the given graduation term. This definition produced a survey panel of 3,470 students- 632 August 2015 graduates, 691 December 2015 graduates, and 2,147 May 2016 graduates. During the 2015-2016 Academic Year (AY15-16), the Walter Center for Career Achievement sought a first destination outcomes data solution that allowed for: a) more timely data collection from students, and b) transparent data sharing with College faculty, staff, and students. To that end, the Walter Center acquired the Career Analytics Platform (CAP) from software vendor 12twenty. As a result of the mid-academic year on-boarding process, data collection methods varied depending on graduation term. August and December 2015 graduates were encouraged to report post-graduation outcomes using an online survey instrument (Qualtrics). The May 2016 graduating class marked the first class to utilize the CAP to report post-graduation outcomes. Regardless of software used, all students were invited to complete the survey through emails from both Walter Center staff and from their academic advisor(s). Emails were sent beginning four weeks prior to commencement ceremonies. For August and December 2015 graduates, email distribution continued weekly until one month following commencement. This effort concluded Phase I of data collection. Following Phase I, students reporting still seeking employment, still seeking continuing education and non-respondent students were surveyed once more beginning five months following graduation commencement and continued for one month as Phase II of data collection. For May 2016 graduates, students were emailed twice weekly beginning April 4, 2016 and encouraged to report their post-graduation status- including still seeking employment and continuing education. The CAP software was used to send targeted emails to students in still seeking categories, encouraging those students to utilize Walter Center services to aid in their post-graduation success. Emails to survey non-respondents continued once weekly following commencement ceremonies through the end of the 2016 calendar year. In accordance with NACE data standards and protocols, first destination outcomes data were also collected from secondary sources, including phone calls to students and families, outreach to faculty and staff in academic departments, internal searches within the IU system for course enrollment or employment, and data mining social media outlets such as LinkedIn. 1.2% Faculty/Staff 73.3% Student 2.1% Reported Employer Records 78.8% knowledge rate 23.4% Social Media 4 First Destination Report | 2015-2016 Academic Year Bachelor’s Degree Graduates RESPONDENT CHARACTERISTICS The charts below provide some information on the