FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT REPORT 2010

The 2010 Placement Report gives detailed information on (1) the employment, educational, and service activities of the graduating class of 2010, (2) Fordham graduates from all classes who applied for medical or law school admission for fall 2010, and (3) prestigious awards received by all students enrolled in 2009-2010. When appropriate, it provides separate results for graduates of business and liberal arts programs. The report begins with an overview and a brief discussion of methodology. Sections follow on employment, education, service, internships, and “other activities” that generally are transitional or temporary in nature, including seeking employment. End notes supply further information about methodology and data sources.

Overview

The primary activities of the class of 2010 graduates were employment, further education, service, and other activities, including continuing to seek employment. Highlights follow.

Class of 2010 Undergraduates Employment 59% (±7%) Average Salaries of Arts and Sciences Graduates $37,953 Average Salaries of Business Graduates $55,650

Further Education 26% (±6%)

Service 3% (±2%) Leading Service Programs AmeriCorps Jesuit Volunteer Corps

Other Activities 13% (±5%) Internship/Preparing for Entrance Exams or Licensure 4% (±3%) Part-time work/Travel/Unreported Activity or Undecided 5% (±3%) Unemployed/Seeking Employment up to 6 Months Out 4% (±3%)

Class of 2010 Total 100%

Multiple Class Outcomes, Academic Year 2009-2010 Prestigious Awards, Finalists, and Alternates 153 Medical School Acceptance Rate (Fall 2010 Matriculants) 82% Law School Acceptance Rate (Fall 2010 Matriculants) 76%

Note. Margins of error are included in parentheses. Percentages reported for the primary activity categories and for the subcategories of “Other Activities” were estimated based on a random sample. (See the discussion of methodology below and in the end notes.) Percentages do not add to total because of rounding.

Methodology

The reader should note that, unlike many surveys of this nature (including other undergraduate placement surveys Fordham has conducted), estimates provided in this report are not based just on graduates who chose to answer the survey. In 2010, the researchers conducted a supplementary phone survey of a random sample of non-respondents and weighted the replies to the phone survey by leiberal arts or business program to reliably estimate, for the entire graduating class, the percentages of graduates engaged in primary activities. This approach provides a comprehensive picture of the outcomes of Fordham graduates and, in the view of the researchers, more credible results. The weighted outcomes appear in the overview, figure 1, and tables 14 and 17. The overview and table 17 provide information on graduates who were still seeking employment up to six months after graduation, a topic that has received much attention in the news1.

Primary Activities

The predominant postbaccalaureate endeavors of graduates were employment and further education. (See figure 1.)

Note. Percentages do not add to total because of rounding. The percentages were estimated based on responses to an online survey (N1 = 415) and weighted data from a phone survey of a random sample of non-respondents (n0 = 94). See Overview or End Notes for margins of error.

Employment

Approximately 59 percent of the graduates chose full-time employment as their primary postbaccalaureate activity.

2 The Process of Obtaining a Job Most graduates who indicated that their primary activity was employment participated in job interviews, received one or more job offers, and were employed within three months of graduation. (See table 1.) The percentage of job interviews and the numbers of offers were higher for business school graduates than for graduates of the liberal arts colleges. It is notable that some respondents obtained jobs without interviewing. An examination of the responses of these graduates to other questions in the survey indicated that they were continuing in an existing job or that internships or prior employment helped them the most in obtaining a position. Most graduates received job offers within three months of graduation, with more than a quarter of the class members obtaining offers before graduation.

Table 1 Number of Job Interviews, and Number and Timing of Job Offers of Graduates Who Chose Employment as a Primary Activity, Graduating Class of 2010

Percentages Gabelli School Liberal Arts of Business Colleges Number of Job Interviews (N = 71) (N = 92) No Interviews 4 10 At Least One Interview 96 90 Two or More Interviews 82 64 Four or More Interviews 64 31

Number of Job Offers (N = 74) (N = 97) No Offers 0 5 At Least One Offer 100 95 Two or More Offers 54 35 Four or More Offers 10 3

Timing of Job Offers (N = 171) (N = 134) Prior to Graduation 24 33 Within 3 Months after Graduation 70 50 Between 3 and 6 Months after Graduation 6 17 Total 100 100

3 Leading Industries, Occupations, and Employers The industries, occupations, and employers of graduates were primarily in the business area followed by the service and non-profit sectors. (See tables 2, 3, and 4.)

Table 2 Leading Industries of Graduates Who Chose Employment as a Primary Activity, Graduating Class of 2010

Percentages Gabelli School Liberal Arts Industries of Business Colleges Financial Services 58 14 Communications 11 22 Consumer Services 11 20 Technology 8 8 Education 0 9 Government 3 7 Health Care 1 7 Social Services 0 6 Non-Governmental Public Service 0 3 Consulting 2 1 Arts and Cultural Affairs 0 2 Manufacturing 3 1 Other 3 1 Total 100 100

Note. N=95 for business graduates, and N=107 for liberal arts graduates.

4 Table 3 Leading Occupations of Graduates Who Chose Employment as a Primary Activity, Graduating Class of 2010

Percentages Gabelli School Liberal Arts Occupations of Business Colleges Finance 33 7 Accounting 29 1 Law 3 16 Marketing 9 10 Communications 5 13 Management 6 10 Information Technology 5 7 Health Care 2 7 Research 0 7 Teaching 1 7 Real Estate 0 7 Economic Development 4 1 Insurance 2 2 Counselor 0 2 Arts 1 1 Fund-Raising/Promotion - Not for Profit 0 1 Military Officer 0 1 Other 0 1 Total 100 100

Note. N=98 for business graduates, and N=107 for liberal arts graduates.

5 Table 4 Top Hiring Employers of Graduates Who Chose Employment as a Primary Activity, Graduating Class of 2010

Percentages Gabelli School Liberal Arts Employers of Business Colleges PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 6 0 JP Morgan Chase 6 0 KPMG LLP 6 0 Ernst & Young LLP 4 0 Fordham University 1 4 General Electric 3 0 Deloitte & Touche 2 1 Goldman Sachs 2 0 Bank of America 2 0 CBS 1 1 Citigroup 2 0 District Attorney's Office of New York 0 2 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 1 1 Morgan Stanley 2 0 Northwestern Mutual 2 0 Pepsi Beverages Co. 2 0 U.S. Army 1 1 Verizon 1 1 Association for the Help of Retarded Children 0 1 Barclays Bank PLC 1 1 Bloomingdales 1 0 Enterprise Incorporated 1 1 Internal Revenue Service 1 0 Marcum LLP 1 0 Staples 0 1 Other 55 85 Total 100 100

Note. N=181 for business graduates, and N=141 for liberal arts graduates.

6 Salaries and Bonuses Salaries of graduates ranged from $20,000 to $300,000, and the maximum signing and annual bonuses were $150,000 and $74,200, respectively. (See table 5.)

Table 5 Mean and Median Salary and Mean Signing and Annual Bonuses of Graduates Who Chose Full-Time Employment as a Primary Activity Graduating Class of 2010

Forms of Compensation Number Reporting Amount

Gabelli School of Business: Mean Annual Salary 157 $55,650 Median Annual Salary 157 $56,000

Mean Signing Bonus 42 $9,383 Mean Annual Bonus 13 $7,015

Liberal Arts Colleges: Mean Annual Salary 97 $37,953 Median Annual Salary 97 $36,000

Mean Signing Bonus 30 $267 Mean Annual Bonus 35 $4,217

Notes. Graduates of the Gabelli School of Business who worked on commission or who were employed by the military were excluded because their salaries omit substantial portions of compensation.

Education

Approximately 26 percent of the graduates of the class of 2010 chose further education as their primary, full-time, postbaccalaureate activity.

It is customary for colleges and universities to report prestigious fellowships and awards received in a given academic year by all undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, awards for work related activities are also included such reports. Similarly, medical and law school admission statistics are reported for applicants for a given fall entering term. So that readers may compare Fordham statistics with national figures and with those of other institutions, this report follows these customs. Thus, the report on further education gives data on prestigious awards for all current students and graduates; it provides and medical and law school acceptance rates for all graduating classes. These are followed by statistics on enrollment in other educational programs for graduates of the class of 2010 only.

7 Prestigious Awards Fordham undergraduate and graduate students received 125 prestigious awards and fellowships. In addition, twenty-one students were finalists and seven were alternates for awards. Thirty-seven current students and recent graduates were recognized in competitions for highly selective awards. (See table 6.)

Table 6 Selected Prestigious Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships, 2009-2010

Highlights of Prestigious Awards Number Boren Scholarship 1 Elie Wiesel Essay Prize 1 French Government Teaching Assistantship 1 Fulbright Fellowship Award 5 Alternate 3 Finalist 4 Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship 1 George J. Mitchell Scholarship, Semi- finalist 2 Gilman Scholarship 2 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship 1 Marshall Scholarship, Finalist 1 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 1 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates 4 New York City Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs 2 New York City Urban Fellowship Award 3 Alternate 1 Finalist 2 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Finalist 1 Truman Scholarship 1 White House Internship 1 Total 38

Medical or Doctoral Health-Professional School Fifty-five Fordham students or graduates applied of admission to doctoral level medical and health professional schools for fall 2010. Of these, 82 percent were admitted. Forty-two students applied to domestic medical schools with 74 percent admitted. This compares with a national accept of 46 percent. (See table 7.) National accept rates are not listed for foreign medical schools or for doctoral health-professional schools because they are not available.

8 Table 7 Admission to U.S. and ForeignMedical Schools and Doctoral Health-Professional Schools for Fall 2010

Five-Year Average Percent Acceptance Types of School Applicants Accepted Enrolled Accepted Rate All Medical Schools U.S. Medical Schools Allopathic 30 17 15 57% 64% Osteopathic 18 16 15 89% 81% Subtotal U.S. Medical Schools 42 31 30 74% 75% National Acceptance Rate 46% Foreign Medical Schools 7 7 0 100% 93% Subtotal All Medical Schools 44 36 30 82% 81%

Doctoral Level Health- Professional Schools Dentistry 5 4 4 80% 71% Podiatry 1 1 1 100% 100% Veterinary Medicine 2 2 2 100% 86% Naturopathic Medicine 3 2 2 67% 80% Subtotal Health- Professional Schools* 11 9 9 82% 80%

Total All Doctoral Level Medical and Health- Professional Schools* 55 45 39 82% 81%

Note. Statistics include all Fordham graduates who applied to medical school for enrollment in fall 2010 regardless of the year in which they graduated. *Totals do not necessarily equal the sum of the applicants because some students apply to more than one type of school.

Twenty-six U.S. medical schools accepted Fordham graduates for fall 2010. About half of these schools are among the top 50 U.S. medical schools for either Research or Primary Care— according to the 2010 ranking of U.S. News & World Report. (See table 8.)

9 Table 8 All U.S. Medical Schools that Accepted Fordham Graduates for Fall 2010

Medical Curriculum Rank1

Allopathic Albany Medical College *Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University 41 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 10 Eastern Virginia Medical School Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University *Mount Sinai School of Medicine 18 *New York Medical College *New York University School of Medicine 30 Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health 27 Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School Rush Medical College of Rush University Stony Brook University School of Medicine SUNY- Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences SUNY- Upstate Medical University College of Medicine SUNY- Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine *Temple University School of Medicine 45 UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School *University of Arizona College of Medicine University of California, LA, David Geffen School of Medicine 13 *University of Colorado 35 *University of Connecticut School of Medicine University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine 45 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2 University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine 36 *Weill Cornell Medical College 17

Osteopathic *New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Notes. * Schools in which Fordham graduates enrolled. 1 Rank among the top 50 institutions reported the U.S. News & World Report 2010 rankings of the Best Medical Schools for Research and the Best Medical Schools for Primary Care.

10 Law School A total of 231 Fordham students and graduates applied for admission to U.S. law schools for enrollment in fall 2010. Seventy-six percent were admitted compared with a national accept rate of 69 percent. (See table 9.)

Table 9 Admission to U.S. Law Schools for Fall 2010

Percent Applicants Accepted Enrolled Accepted Graduates of the Class of 2010 79 68 60 86% Graduates between 9/2006 and 8/2009 95 71 64 75% Graduates before 9/2006 51 30 25 59% Other 6 6 6 100% Total 231 175 155 76%

National Acceptance Rate 69%

Note. Other includes juniors and those with no graduation date on file with the Law School Admission Council.

Thirty-eight of the law schools that admitted Fordham applicants are among the top 50 U.S. law schools in the 2010 ranking of Best Law Schools compiled by U.S. News & World Report. (See table 10.)

Table 10 Top 50 Ranked U.S. Law Schools where Fordham Graduates Were Accepted for Fall 2010

Law School Rank1 Columbia University School of Law 4 The University of Chicago Law School 5 * New York University School of Law 6 * The University of Michigan Law School 7 University of Pennsylvania Law School 7 University of California - Berkeley 9 * University of Virginia School of Law 9 Duke University School of Law 11 Northwestern University School of Law 12 * Cornell Law School 13 (Continued)

11 Table 10 Top 50 Ranked U.S. Law Schools where Fordham Graduates Were Accepted for Fall 2010

Law School Rank1 * Georgetown University Law Center 14 The University of Texas School of Law 14 University of California at Los Angeles 16 Vanderbilt University Law School 16 University of Southern California 18 Washington University School of Law 18 * George Washington University Law School 20 University of Minnesota Law School 20 * Boston University School of Law 22 * Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington 23 University of Notre Dame Law School 23 * Boston College Law School 27 College of William and Mary Law School 27 * The University of Iowa College of Law 27 Emory University School of Law 30 * Fordham University School of Law 30 * University of North Carolina 30 University of Washington School of Law 30 Washington and Lee University 30 Ohio State University 35 Wake Forest University School of Law 39 * George Mason University School of Law 40 The University of Arizona 42 University of California - Hastings College of the Law 42 Tulane University Law School 47 University of Colorado Law School 47 * American University - Washington College of Law 50 * Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law, Yeshiva University 50

Notes. 1 Rank among the top 50 institutions reported by U.S.News & World Report in their 2010 rankings of the Best Law Schools. * Schools where Fordham graduates enrolled.

12 Table 11 lists the law schools that Fordham graduates more frequently entered in fall 2010.

Table 11 U.S. Law Schools by Number of Fordham Graduates in the Fall 2010 Entering Class

Number of Law School Students Enrolled New York Law School 15 Pace University School of Law 15 Fordham University School of Law 13 St. John's University School of Law 9 Brooklyn Law School 8 Seton Hall University School of Law 6 Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center 5 Ave Maria School of Law 3 Hofstra University School of Law 3 New York University School of Law 3 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School 3 Villanova University School of Law 3 Albany Law School of Union University 2 American University - Washington College of Law 2 City University of New York School of Law 2 Georgetown University Law Center 2 Quinnipiac University School of Law 2 Rutgers University 2 Rutgers University School of Law - Newark 2 Suffolk University Law School 2 Temple University 2 University at Buffalo Law School - SUNY 2 Widener University School of Law 2 All Schools with One Fordham Graduate 47 Total 155

13 Further Schooling Other than Professional Doctoral Medical, Health Professional, and Legal Graduates of the class of 2010 who chose education as their primary postbaccalaureate activity—other than those seeking professional doctorates in medicine, health professions, and law— enrolled in a variety programs. Most of these students enrolled in master’s degree programs. (See table 12.) Table 13 lists the schools that two or more graduates attended. Note, the statistics in this and all the following sections of this report include only students who graduated in 2010.

Table 12 Degree Programs in which Fordham Graduates in 2010 Enrolled as a Primary Activity (Excludes Students in Programs for Professional Doctorates in Law and Medicine)

Percentages Gabelli School Liberal Arts Degree Programs of Business Colleges PhD or other Doctoral Degree 0 8 MBA 50 2 MSW 0 4 Master's (other than MBA or MSW) 46 78 Other/Unspecified 4 8 Total 100 100

Notes. Other/Unspecified includes licensure programs, postbaccalaureate certificate programs and second bachelor's degree programs. N=70 for business graduates and N=86 for liberal arts.

14 Table 13 Educational Institutions with Fordham 2010 Graduates in the 2010 Entering Class (Excludes Students in Programs for Professional Doctorates in Law and Medicine) Number of Students Enrolled Gabelli School Liberal Arts Educational Institutions of Business Colleges Fordham University 57 66 Long Island University 3 6 Columbia University 1 6 Hofstra University 3 4 CUNY - Hunter College 0 6 Pace University 1 4 CUNY - John Jay College of Criminal Justice 0 4 New York University 0 4 The New School 0 4 University of Pennsylvania 0 4 Georgetown University 0 3 Mercy College 0 3 Polytechnic Institute of New York 0 3 Rutgers University 1 2 St John's University 1 2 Barry University 1 1 Boston College 0 2 Brooklyn Law School 2 0 CUNY - Lehman College 1 1 Indiana University, Bloomington 0 2 Montclair State University 0 2 University of Notre Dame 1 1 University of Rhode Island 0 2 All Schools with One Graduate 72 132 Total 86 184

15 Service

Approximately three percent of 2010 graduates indicated that they participated in a service program as their primary postbaccalaureate activity. Of these, 78 percent joined a community program. The other 22 percent chose to serve in the armed forces. Table 14 presents participation by type of service program, scope (local, national, or international), location, and length of service commitment.

Table 14 Type, Scope, Location and Length of Service Programs of Graduates for Whom Service Was a Primary Activity, Graduating Class of 2010

Service Programs Percentages Type of Service Community Service 78 Armed Forces 22 Total 100 Scope National 47 Local 32 International 21 Total 100 Location U.S. 84 Overseas 16 Total 100 Length of Service Less than a Year 46 More than One Year, Less than Two 32 Two Years or More 23 Total 100

Note. Percentages were estimated based on answers to an online survey and weighted data from a phone survey of a random sample of non-respondents. (N = 22 for all responses.)

16 Half of the graduates who pursued service full time enrolled in AmeriCorps, and about 19 percent joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. (See table 15.)

There were too few respondents to the questions on service programs to provide reliable statistics separately for business and liberal arts graduates.

Table 15 Service Programs in which Graduates who Chose Service as a Primary Activity Participated, Graduating Class of 2010

Service Programs Number AmeriCorps 8 Jesuit Volunteer Corps 3 Other 5 Total 16

Relationship of Internships to Postgraduate Activity and Employment

More than half (56%) of the graduates who reported having obtained an internship during their undergraduate studies indicated that their experience as an intern led them to choose their current primary activity. In addition, over 22 percent stated that their internship resulted in an offer of a full- time job. This pattern was more pronounced for business than liberal arts graduates. (See table 16.)

Table 16 Relationship of Internships to Postgraduate Activity and Employment Graduating Class of 2010

Percentage Gabelli School Liberal Arts Internships of Business Colleges Internship Experience Led to Current Activity 58 53 Offered Full- Time Employment Based on Internship 42 14

17 Other Activities

Approximately 13 percent of the graduating class of 2010 engaged in activities other than full- time employment, further education, or service. Of these, two percent engaged in part-time or temporary employment. Other graduates (4%) engaged in activities that would prepare them for future endeavors, such as doing and internship, studying for a licensure test, or preparing entrance exams for admission to an educational program. Another four percent of the graduates reported that they were unemployed and actively seeking full-time employment. (See table 17.)

Table 17 Activities Other than Full-Time Employment, Education, or Service in which Fordham Graduates Were Engaged, Graduating Class of 2010

Percentage of Class Other Activities (Margin of Error) Unemployed/Seeking Full-Time Employment up to 6 Months Out 4 (±3%) Employment Other Than Permanent and Full Time 2 (±2%) Interning/Preparing for Entrance Exams or Licensure 4 (±3%) Travel 2 (±2%) Unreported/Undecided 1 (±1%) Total 13 (±5%)

Note. Percentages were estimated based on responses to an online survey and weighted responses to a phone survey of a random sample of non-respondents. (N = 24 for all responses.)

Footnote to Text

1 For a recent instance of such criticism in the press, see “College’s Job-Placement Statistics Fail to Tell the Whole Story,” by Timothy Sandoval in the The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2012, page A6.

End Notes

Methodology The 1,661 seniors graduating in February and May of 2010 were sent an online survey about their postbaccalaureate plans and career placement. Responses were accepted between between May 18 and December 21, 2010. Four hundred and fifteen graduates provided usable responses (25%). To increase the reliability of the analysis, a random sample of 120 students was drawn from the 1,246 students who had not answered the online survey by early September. The Office of Career Services phoned students in the sample between September 28 and November 1, 2010. With a 78 percent response rate, this supplementary survey resulted in 94 additional usable replies. The online respondents were treated as a complete population (N1 = 415) and the telephone data were treated as a random sample (n0 = 94) from the population of non-respondents to the online survey (N0 = 1,246). Frequencies from the telephone data were weighted to replicate proportions of business and liberal arts graduates in the non-respondent population. The weighted frequencies from the telephone survey were then combined with the observed frequencies from the online respondents to comprise the overall results. Weighted statistics appear in the Overview, figure 1, and tables 14, and 17.

18 Random sampling entails potential error in the estimated percentages. The margins of error in the report reflect a 95 percent confidence interval. In addition to potential sampling error, another source of possible error is in the judgment of the researchers in classifying primary activities. Estimating the size of this error is not feasible. The researchers believe it would be inappropriate to weight data on specific results, such as leading employers or numbers of students in medical schools. Thus, only data on primary activities are weighted. As indicated in the sources notes below, the researchers used data in addition to the survey to complete tables 1 through 13. These sources provided information on an additional 477 unique students. In total, data were obtained for 986 members of the class of 2010 graduates (59%).

Figure 1 Note. Percentages were estimated. See Methodology (immediately above) for more information. The margin of error for each category is as follows, Employment (±7%), Education (±6%), Service (±2%), and Other Activities (±5%). Source. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey.

Table 1 Note. These data are based on graduates who chose employment as their primary postbaccalaureate activity and who also supplied information about their job-hunting and hiring experiences. Sources. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey and the Gabelli School of Business’s Exit Survey of Graduating Seniors and survey of employers.

Table 2, 3, and 4 Note. The three tables respectively are based on 202, 205, and 322 graduates who chose employment as their primary postbaccalaureate activity and for whom industry, occupation, or employer, information could be obtained. Sources. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey and the Gabelli School of Business’s Exit Survey of Graduating Seniors and survey of employers.

Table 5 Notes. Among those who chose employment as their primary postbaccalaureate activity, there were 254 graduates with salary information, 72 with signing bonus information, and 48 with annual bonus information. Mean signing and annual bonuses were calculated only for those graduates for whom the investigators obtained data. Sources. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey and the Gabelli School of Business’s Exit Survey of Graduating Seniors and survey of employers.

Table 6 Source. The Fordham University St. Edmund Campion Institute for the Advancement of Intellectual Excellence.

Table 7 Sources. Pre-medical advisors and the Applicant Matriculant File of the American Association of Medical Colleges Data Warehouse as of November 9, 2011.

Table 8 Sources. Pre-medical advisors and U.S. News & World Report 2010 rankings of the Best Medical Schools for Research and the Best Medical Schools for Primary Care.

Table 9 Sources. Pre-law advisors and Law School Admission Council Volume Summary as of June 8, 2011.

Tables 10 and 11 Sources. Pre-law advisors and the National Student Clearinghouse and U.S. News & World Report 2010 rankings of the Best Law Schools.

Table 12 Note. Data on types of degree programs are based on 156 graduates with degree program information who chose further education as their primary postbaccalaureate activity. Graduates with degree program information in the fields of medicine and law were excluded from this table because they are reported on separately in tables 7 and 9, respectively. Included in the counts are (1) graduates that the National Student Clearinghouse listed as enrolled, (2) those who responded to a

19 questionnaire before the fall and indicated that they had been accepted and intended to enroll, and (3) those who replied during the fall and reported that they had in fact matriculated. Sources. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey and the National Student Clearinghouse.

Table 13 Note. Some schools do not participate in the National Student Clearinghouse. Students enrolled in non-participating schools do not appear in the count unless the student reported attendance through the Placemen Survey. Sources. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey and the National Student Clearinghouse.

Table 14 Note. The data are based on weighted responses of 22 graduates who indicated service as a primary activity and supplied information on program characteristics. Source. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey.

Table 15 Note. Data on service programs are based on graduates who supplied service program information (from among those who chose service as their primary postbaccalaureate activity). Source. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey.

Table 16 Note. Internship data are based on 217 graduates who supplied internship information. Source. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey.

Table 17 Note. Percentages were estimated. See Methodology section of End Notes for more information. Source. The Fordham University Career Placement Survey.

Acknowledgements The Offices of Career Services and Institutional Research, as well as the Gabelli School of Business, collaborated on this research. Fordham’s pre-law and pre-health advisors, and the St. Edmund Campion Institute for the Advancement of Intellectual Excellence provided additional information. Staff in the Dean’s Office at the Gabelli School of Business administered an Exit Survey of Graduating Seniors to their students and a survey of employers; the Office of Career Services administered the phone survey of non-respondents; and Dr. Charles Lewis, Professor of Psychology in Fordham’s Psychometrics program consulted on weighting and margins of error. Among the staff of the Office of Institutional Research, Dr. Peter Feigenbaum, Associate Director, collected the survey data, designed and conducted the data analyses, and wrote the final report, and Ms. Andrea McNamara, a Graduate Research Assistant from the Psychometrics program, weighted the data and analyzed the margins of error. Dr. Donald A. Gillespie, Associate Vice President, supervised the project and, along with Dr. Jeannine Pinto, Assessment Officer, reviewed the methodology and edited the final report.

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