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 ISA website.
Use this point-and-click interface to explore key results from the December 2023 and May 2024 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.
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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| College |
December 2023 and May 2024 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 | 171 | 86 | 50.3% | 33 | 41 | 38 | $66,842 | $57,500 |
| College of Design | 73 | 51 | 69.9% | 2 | 23 | 20 | $61,196 | $62,500 |
| College of Education | 200 | 121 | 60.5% | 10 | 81 | 76 | $66,118 | $57,500 |
| College of Engineering | 1014 | 548 | 54.0% | 50 | 302 | 278 | $106,344 | $102,500 |
| College of Humanities and Social Sciences | 262 | 124 | 47.3% | 21 | 65 | 63 | $59,102 | $57,500 |
| College of Natural Resources | 74 | 48 | 64.9% | 8 | 32 | 31 | $78,226 | $77,500 |
| College of Sciences | 132 | 56 | 42.4% | 11 | 28 | 27 | $102,315 | $102,500 |
| Institute for Advanced Analytics | 95 | 92 | 96.8% | 0 | 51 | 51 | $109,657 | $112,500 |
| Poole College of Management | 276 | 158 | 57.2% | 1 | 128 | 126 | $110,615 | $102,500 |
| Wilson College of Textiles | 37 | 25 | 67.6% | 6 | 12 | 10 | $67,500 | $67,500 |
| University Total | 2,336 | 1,310 | 56.1% | 143 | 763 | 720 | $93,826 | $87,500 |