Job Placement Data

 

Placement:

• Student success may be measured by employment and/or continuation in graduate study. On January 22, 2004, Governor Perry issued Executive Order RP 31 requiring the Coordinating Board and each institution and system work together to provide “the information necessary to determine the effectiveness and quality of the education students receive at individual institutions” also to provide “the basis to evaluate the institutions’ use of state resources.” The Texas Accountability System for public higher education provides data for 35 public universities, nine health-related institutions, the four Texas State Technical Colleges and three two-year Lamar State Colleges.
  
  The Institutional Placement Data 2005 chart reflects these behaviors reported annually by this system. For the most recent cohort of graduates (2005), 92.70 of UTB/TSC baccalaureate graduates were either employed or continued their education in graduate schools within one year of graduation. This compares with an 86.77% median for all state-supported universities in Texas. Of this UTB/TSC cohort, 71.0% are employed, 2.8% are enrolled in graduate schools but are not working, and 18.9% are enrolled and also are employed.
  
  
• Since spring 2001, The UTB/TSC Institutional Research and Planning Office has been conducting Graduate Student Surveys during commencement. The graduating student survey is a paper survey of 41 question items, which is administered to UTB/TSC graduates of all levels and from all schools and colleges. The Survey question items are categorized as follows: Background, Employment Status, Educational Plans, UTB/TSC Experience and Services
  
  As per the Fall 2006 Graduating Student Survey, performed by the Institutional Research and Planning Office, a total of 511 students completed the survey.
  
  At the time of graduation, these students indicated the following:
  
  

  Please Select the item that best describes your current job status
  hold or have accepted a full-time job related to my major	40%
  hold or have accepted a full-time job unrelated to my major	11%
  hold or have accepted a part-time job related to my major	9%
  hold or have accepted a part-time job unrelated to my major	11%
  None of the above describes my current employment status	29%

  
  Of those employed they indicated their current salary as follows:
               

  From	to	Percent
  $12,000.00	$17,999.00	46%
  $18,000.00	$29,999.00	17%
  $30,000.00	$37,999.00	18%
  $38,000.00	$46,999.00	12%
  $47,000.00	$52,999.00	7%

  
  The average salary (for those employed) was $ 29,499
  
  Additional data can be obtained thru the Institutional Research and Planning page:
  
  
• In Spring 2006, UTB/TSC created a Task Force that will focus on Student Success; the Task Force developed a list of 21 goals/attributes of a successful UTB/TSC student. One of these goals war that: “A UTB/TSC student will attain employment in a career that rewards education”.
  
  The subcommittee’s goal was to determine employment rates at the time of graduation as well as a follow-up study from the time of graduation to that date. The subcommittee was able to identify the salary history for over 4,700 students (2001 – Spring 2005), observed a historical salary increase one year after graduation (Over 30%) that could measure the “Value Added” (Economic impact) of a UTB/TSC college education. Click here to access the executive summary Click here to access the executive summary
  
  
• In Spring 2007, The Career Services office also began conducting an employment survey for the upcoming graduating class, the students were encouraged to complete the survey which included questions that could be correlated to those from the GSS, as well as additional employment specific questions. 25% of all the registered graduates completed the survey. An executive summary of this survey can be observed in the following link:

Spring 2007 Survey Results