North
Carolina State University
2003-2004 Graduating Senior Survey:
Highlights
- NC State conducted its annual
survey of graduating seniors during the fall 2003 and spring 2004 semesters.
Sixty-four percent of seniors who graduated in AY03-04 completed the web survey.
The margin of error for the survey is +0.7 percentage points at the
95% confidence interval.
- Almost 90 percent of respondents
(87.7%) said they would recommend NC State to a friend, and three-fourths
of all respondents (75.4%) said they would choose NC State again if they could
start over.
- Over 90 percent of respondents
rated the intellectual environment on campus as "strong" (65.4%)
or "very strong" (26.3%). Large majorities of respondents gave positive
ratings to the overall education they received at NC State, the overall quality
of instruction, and the quality of instruction in their major. A majority
of respondents gave faculty in their major positive ratings in all areas asked
about, with highest ratings for setting high expectations for learning.
- Respondents generally gave positive
ratings to various academic services outside the classroom. Technology
services and library services received the highest overall ratings,
while research support services received somewhat lower overall ratings.
- More than half of white respondents (52.3%)
"strongly agreed" that NC State is committed to helping minorities succeed, compared
to 27.8 percent of non-African Americans and 13.9 percent of African American respondents. About one-third of white respondents (33.5%) "strongly agreed" that NC State has visible leadership
from the Chancellor and other administrators to foster diversity on campus,
compared to 12.3 percent of African Americans and 19.4 percent of non-African American minorities.
- About half of respondents
(51.8%) said it took them longer than four years to graduate. These students most commonly cited having "changed majors" or "personal reasons" for their delayed graduation.
- About half of respondents (49.3%) were employed off-campus during their graduation year, working an average of about 22 hours per week. Fewer students reported working on campus (14.4%), and those that did worked fewer hours (14 hours on average). A similar number (13.6%) worked both on and off campus, for an average of 29 hours per week. The majority of employed respondents (63.5%) indicated that they worked to pay their living expenses. One-third or fewer employed respondents were working in jobs related to their major.
- 40 percent of respondents
had a co-op, intership, practicum or field experience while at NC State. One-fourth of those with such experience said they received a job offer from
their employer.
- At the time they completed the survey, almost 40 percent of respondents were still seeking employment. One-fourth of respondents said they were planning on going to graduate or professional school either full- or part-time after graduation. Just over 10 percent had accepted a job for after graduation (8.3%) or were going to continue in their current position (2.9%).
For more information on the 2003-2004 Graduating Senior Survey
contact:
Dr. Nancy Whelchel, Associate Director for Survey Research
Office of Institutional Planning and Research
Box 7002
NCSU
Phone: (919) 515-4184
Email: Nancy_Whelchel@ncsu.edu
Posted: September, 2004
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