December 2024 and May 2025 Future Plans Survey Results

The Undergraduate and Graduate Future Plans Surveys (FPS) ask those graduating with a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree about their future plans. The surveys is are administered around the time of commencement each fall and spring semester. Reports on results for the FPS can be found on the UDA website.

Use this point-and-click interface to explore key results from the December 2024 and May 2025 FPS. Select and filter results by degree, college, and/or academic program to get summary statistics of the survey population and number of respondents, the number accepting a full-time job or attending graduate/professional school, and starting salary for those with full-time employment.

Click on the college, department, or academic program name to see details related to the post-graduate employment (i.e., name of organization where working and job title) and further education (i.e., institution, degree, program) of survey respondents from that college/department/program.

Notes:
1) Departments and academic programs in which no student conferred a degree in the semester of the survey's administration are not displayed in the results below.
2) Statistics on salary information are provided only for departments and academic programs in which two or more respondents reported their salary.
3) Details on employment and further education are provided only for departments and academic programs in which two or more respondents reported their employment and/or further education destinations.

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Instructions: Use the filters to select a degree and then a college and/or academic program. Click "Update Results." If you want to start a new search, click "Clear Filters."

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University Quick Facts
Average Reported Salary $94,367
Median Reported Salary $87,500
College with highest reported average salary: College of Engineering
All Colleges: Doctoral Degree Recipients
College December 2024 and May 2025
Graduates
Survey
Respondents
Response
Rate
Attending
Grad/Prof School
Accepted
Full Time Job
Reporting
Salary
Avg. Starting
Salary
Median Starting
Salary
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 53 48 90.6% 0 32 31 $81,290 $77,500
College of Design 3 3 100.0% 0 3 2 $82,500 $82,500
College of Education 80 40 50.0% 0 33 31 $91,048 $87,500
College of Engineering 139 80 57.6% 0 55 51 $110,196 $107,500
College of Humanities and Social Sciences 28 19 67.9% 0 17 17 $91,471 $72,500
College of Natural Resources 17 12 70.6% 0 8 8 $68,125 $67,500
College of Sciences 57 20 35.1% 0 12 12 $98,958 $85,000
College of Veterinary Medicine 11 9 81.8% 1 2 2 $92,500 $92,500
Poole College of Management 4 1 25.0% 0 1 1
*Data Unavailable
*Data Unavailable
Wilson College of Textiles 22 11 50.0% 0 3 2 $77,500 $77,500
University Total 415 244 58.8% 1 167 158 $94,367 $87,500