Tracking Outcomes On Graduates of Yale University

Karen AndersonAssociate Provost

• Collected via senior survey• Administered by

• Office of Career Strategy beginning with the Class of 2013

• Office of Institutional Research from 1960 to 2006

Undergraduate data

• Office of Career Strategy

– Class of 2014: 95.1%– Class of 2013: 83.4%

• Office of Institutional Research

– Class of 2010: 68%– Class of 2008: 73%– Classes of 1990–2006: 76–82% – Classes of 1960–1989: 70–80%

Yale’s Senior Survey Response Rates

• 2013 & 2014:

– Survey respondents were sent a “class list” of contact and placement information for their graduating class

– Access to the class list was an incentive to complete the 2014 survey

Success of Yale’s response rate

• Because of high response rate, social media is not relied on for initial data

• LinkedIn is used to verify that the student got or took the job, if listed as “in progress” on survey

• The Office of Career Strategy finds facebook more effective than LinkedIn or Twitter for reaching current students

Uses of Social Media

• Graduate School of Arts & Sciences– All Ph.D. degrees

• Professional Schools– Architecture– Art– Divinity– Drama– Engineering & Applied Science– Forestry & Environmental Studies– Law– Management– Medicine– Music– Nursing– Public Health

What about Yale’s graduate alumni?

School of Public Health

• Provide better information on:

– Ph.D. alumni placement• Provide consistent information on:

– Professional school alumni placement

Next steps