A national survey of college graduates was conducted to determine students' utilization of their education in their careers. Questions focused on benefits derived from college education and what college graduates seek from their work. The results indicated that nonvocational subjects like English are considered almost useless in the job market and…

This document contains the findings of a national study of some 12,000 college graduates (who entered college in 1961 and had been working full-time for up to 10 years) to determine the utilization and value of higher education in employment. The focus of this report is the utilization in careers of the knowledge obtained in undergraduate study…

Surveys of students and alumni are viewed as helpful by accrediting teams, college recruiters, career counseling and placement officers, current and prospective students, etc. Only in large-scale national surveys like Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is there potential for individual colleges to utilize data for their own…

A 1977 study of 9,000 college students surveyed as freshmen in 1970 examines changes in life goals, religious preference, voting habits, political views, and satisfaction with work and leisure among students in different major fields, noting strong correlations between job satisfaction and satisfaction with leisure and other aspects of life.…

A 1974 follow-up survey of college freshmen of 196l probed the job-relatedness of educational background, job satisfaction, perceptions of jobs and long-range goals, and necessity for college education on the job (especially in such subject areas as business administration and English). The relevance of the survey sample to youth affected by the…

The outcomes of the employment situation for science and engineering PhDs were assessed through a survey of college and university departments and faculty members who had accepted new academic jobs or who had left academic jobs for other positions within the last three years. Faculty members who had accepted their first job after receiving the…

The attitudes and behaviors of college graduates several years after graduation and the changes in their attitudes from their freshman year (1970) until the time of a followup survey (1977) were studied. The following areas were covered with the 9,000 respondents: life goals, religious preferences, how the college graduates spend their time,…