EMPLOYMENT RATES OF GRADUATES

Provincial Goal (Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities 1999/00 Business Plan):

• To enable potential university students to make an informed choice, the Ministry will require universities to publish, beginning in the spring of 1999, information on the employment status of 1996 graduates six months and two years after graduation for all universities and university programs.



Commentary:



• Results from the Ontario Graduate Placement Survey carried out in Winter 2000 continue to show that most Carleton graduates find employment relatively quickly and, by and large, obtain well-paying jobs. The rate of employment appears to vary across degree programs but the high error rates, due to the size of the response sample, make it impossible to make definitive comparisons.
• Two years into the labour market, 1996 Carleton graduates experience an employment rate of 94% - statistically, this is not significantly different from the average employment rate of all Ontario university graduates (96.4%). The overall average employment rate in January 2000 was 92.6% for the 25-34 age group and was 88.7% for the 20-24 age group.