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Placement Results
Goldey-Beacom College is extremely proud of its historically strong emphasis
on careers – an approach that has produced historically high job placement
within months of graduation. Each year’s graduates are asked to complete a
survey reporting employment status, salary, and satisfaction. With over a
90% response rate, survey results show high placement and graduates working
in the field for which they have been trained or chosen to work.
2011 Associates Degree Graduate Survey
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This survey was administered online to
the 2011 Associate’s degree graduates between April and August 2011.
Over 92% of the graduates responded to the survey.
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Out of the graduates that responded,
89% reported concentrations in Business Administration, 11% in
Accounting and 0% in Computer Information Systems.
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89% of domestic respondents were
employed, continuing their education or temporarily unavailable for
work.
Out of the
employed domestic respondents:
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100% found work to be directly or
somewhat related to their major course of study.
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86% were very or somewhat satisfied
with their current job.
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78 % of all graduates were interested
in pursuing a B.S. degree with 86% saying they would consider GBC for
the B.S. program.
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Average time to complete Associate’s
degree program: 3.38 years
2011 Bachelors Degree Graduate Survey
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This survey was administered online to the 2011
Bachelors degree graduates between April and August 2011. Over 92% of
the graduates responded to the survey.
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Out of the graduates that responded, 30% were in
Management, 24% in Accounting, 14% in Marketing Management, 10% in
Business Administration, 6% in Financial Management, 6% in Human
Resource Management, 4% in International Business, 3% in Accounting
Information Systems, 2% in Computer Information Systems, and 1% in
Organizational Psychology.
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94% of domestic respondents were employed, continuing
their education or temporarily unavailable for work.
Out of the employed
domestic respondents:
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76% found work to be directly or somewhat related to
their major course of study (versus 68% in 2010).
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75% were very or somewhat satisfied with their current
job (versus 68% in 2010.)
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33% were employed with a large employer with over 500
employees.
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Of the respondents who were employed full time,
reported salary ranges were: 16% under $20K; 16% at $20-29K; 21% at
$30-39K; 19% at $40-49K; 8% at $50-59K; 6% at $60K and above. 14% did
not report their salary.
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Of the respondents who listed their employers, 72
employers were represented. The top employers for the 2010 graduates
were: Goldey-Beacom College (5), Enterprise Rent-a-Car (3), Bank of
America (2), SallieMae (2), JPMorgan Chase (2), Barclays (2), Astra
Zeneca (2), and Self-employed (2). A clear trend is for graduates to be
spread over more employers, compared to the previous pattern of many
graduates at several employers.
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56% of all graduates were interested in pursuing a
master’s degree (57% in 2010) with 44% saying they would consider GBC
for a Master’s program (down from 60% in 2010).
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Average time to complete Bachelor’s degree program:
4.1 years
2011 Masters Degree Graduate Survey
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This survey was administered online to
all 2011 Master degree students, with over 92% of the Masters students
responding. The survey was conducted between April and August 2011.
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Out of the Master’s graduates who
responded, 33% earned their MBA in Financial Management, 20% in Human
Resource Management, 19% in the Comprehensive MBA, 11% in Marketing
Management, 6% in Information Technology Management, 4% in the Master’s
of Management, 4% in Master’s of Taxation and 3% in Master’s of Finance.
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Of the domestic respondents, 96% were
employed, continuing their education, or temporarily unavailable for
work. (Up from 89% in 2010.)
Out of the
employed domestic respondents:
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85% found work directly or somewhat
related to their course of study (versus 92% in 2010).
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45% of the respondent’s employers
considered their position to be management level (versus 41% in 2010).
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77% perceive opportunities for
advancement in their jobs (versus 31% in 2010).
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72% were very satisfied or somewhat
satisfied with their current job (versus 76% in 2010).
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Of the respondents who were employed
full-time, salary ranges were: 13% below $30K; 19% at $30-40K; 19% at
$40-50K; 17% at $50-60K; 9% at $60-70K; and 7% at $70K and above. 16%
did not report their salary.
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23% were employed at large employers
(over 500 employees) with 16% working in the financial industry (versus
63% at large employers and 27% in the financial industry in 2010).
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Out of the respondents who listed their
employer, 45 companies were represented. The top employers for the
masters degree 2011 graduates include: Bank of America (8), JPMorgan
Chase (4), Citi (3), and Sallie Mae (3).
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Average time to complete a Master’s
degree program: 2.3 years
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