Significance of Career Services in Higher Education (1)
1. 1 IN 10 BUSINESS LEADERS BELIEVE COLLEGE PREPARES GRADUATES
86% OF INCOMING FRESHMAN GO TO COLLEGE TO GET A BETTER JOB
THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES 25 YEARS AND
OLDER HAS DOUBLED SINCE 2000
CAREER SERVICES
SIGNIFICANCE OF
IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Maguire Study Results
Top factors influencing college enrollment decisions (for parents students)
ACADEMIC PROGRAM / CURRICULUM
COST / AFFORDABILITY
SUCCESS AFTER COLLEGE (ROI)
FACTORS INFLUENCING GRADUATES'
LIKELIHOOD TO FIND CAREER
SERVICES HELPFUL:
50% of college survey respondents visited career
services but only 17% of them (20102016)
found career services to be helpful
AREA OF STUDY
TRANSFER &
FIRST GEN
MINORITIES
HIGH LOANS
Graduates' likelihood of visiting the career
center varied by major, with grads in the
more profitable majors most likely to report a
positive experience
Fewer than 50% of transfer and first
generation graduates visited career
services, though they were equally likely to
find the experience to be helpful
Twice as many minority graduates as white
graduates visited career services. Minority
graduates rated their career services
experiences more positively
Graduates with higher loans were more
likely to have visited career services, but
also more likely to indicate career services
was not helpful
2. VISITING THE CAREER
CENTER CONTRIBUTES
TO POSITIVE GRADUATE
OUTCOMES...
Simply visiting the
career center
doesn't increase
the likelihood of a
positive rating of
ones
undergraduate
experience
Students who
visited career
services were more
likely to be
employed fulltime
after graduation
(67%) than those
who didn't (59%)
... AND A HIGH QUALITY
CAREER SERVICES
EXPERIENCE DOES
EVEN MORE
A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE AT THE
CAREER CENTER MADE GRADUATES:
5.8 times more likely to feel that their
college/university prepared them well
3.4 times more likely to recommend their
college/university
2.6 times more likely to donate to their
college/university
THESE GRADUATES ARE:
More than 6 times more likely to say
their college/university is passionate
about student success
Nearly 4 times more likely to say their
education was worth the cost
More likely to find quality employment
