jym626
August 13, 2025, 1:03pm
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You are spot on. The limitations of those self report outcome data lists have been explained ad nauseaum. Yet some remain attached to them. Time to link the topical thread again for further support and explanation:
As students are weighing their college acceptances/choices, one of the variables frequently mentioned is the college’s career outcome report, to consider how many of the school’s graduates are employed and what are their average salaries (usually starting salaries, though some also look at later career grads). While these reports can be an interesting metric, one needs to do a deeper dive and to be careful to recognize the limits and potential flaws with these reports. First and foremost, it is limited by the # of students responding to the surveys. As this excellent article
Colleges’ career success stats don’t tell the whole story about how their graduates are doing after they get their degree notes, “This is, perhaps, the greatest selling point for any institution of higher education. Students consistently say that finding a good-paying job is among the top reasons why they go to college.
As scholars of career education , we believe it’s important for students and families to know …
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