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 2001 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, 1997 Carleton graduates experience an employment rate of 96.2% - statistically, this is
not significantly different from the average employment rate of all Ontario university graduates (96.4%). The same group
of graduates had an employment rate of 92.6% six months after graduation.
The Carleton (and general university graduate) employment rate compares favourably with the overall employment rate
of the 20-24 age group, which was 90.7% at the time the Placement Survey was conducted.