Future Plans Survey of Graduating Seniors
For the academic year 2008-09, we chose to survey students graduating in the Spring semester. Each student was asked "What is MOST LIKELY to be your PRINCIPAL activity upon graduation?" We used two different methods for administering our survey: a paper survey that was distributed to 235 students and an email survey to 229 students for a total sample size of 464 graduating seniors. The overall response rate was approxiamately 43%. Results are summarized in the below table.
| 2008-09 Future Plans Survey | ||
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| Principal Activity | Frequency | Percent |
| Employment full-time paid | 132 |
66.0 % |
| Graduate or professional school full-time | 38 |
19.0 % |
| Employment part-time paid | 10 |
5.0 % |
| Other | 6 |
3.0 % |
| Military service | 4 |
2.0 % |
| Graduate or professional school part-time | 3 |
1.5 % |
| Volunteer activity | 3 |
1.5 % |
| Additional undergraduate coursework | 2 |
1.0 % |
| Starting or raising a family | 2 |
1.0 % |
| Total | 200 |
100 |