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Institutional Examples:Student Outcomes

What is different in your life because of your college education? The answer to that key question is highly individualized -- both by institution, and by the specific person who attended that institution. Always important, and sometimes profoundly so, the value added to your life by your college education is sometimes hard to quantify.

On this page you will find examples of the range of ways that private colleges and universities are attempting to identify, measure, and improve the outcomes of obtaining a college degree, and are documenting how that experience affects the years beyond college.

California:	University of San Francisco *Alumni Outcomes Survey*
District of Columbia:	Trinity University *Assessment of Student Learning from 2006 Accreditation Self-study*
Indiana:	Butler University *2000 & 2005 Undergraduate Alumni Survey* Earlham College *Senior Surveys (1997 - 2005)* *Alumni Surveys*
Michigan:	Kalamazoo College Survey of All Alumni with Doctorate Degrees Northwood University *Anticipated Student Outcomes*
New York:	Syracuse University *All University Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee*
North Carolina:	Elon University *2005 National Survey of Student Engagement* Wake Forest University Four Years Later: Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of the Changes in the Class of 2001
Ohio:	Oberlin College *A Report on the Class of 2006* *2005 Survey of Classes of 1984 and 1994*
South Carolina:	Winthrop University *National Survey of Student Engagement: A Summary Report of Winthrop University Results for 2005*
Virginia:	Roanoke College *Classes of 1999 and 2004 Alumni Survey*
Washington:	Seattle Pacific University Statement of Intended Undergraduate Degree Programs Learning Outcomes
Wisconsin:	Carthage College Six-month plus 4-year and 10-year Longitudinal Surveys of Graduating Classes

Trinity University