Senior Exit Survey

Drexel University’s Office of Institutional Research (OIR) first administered the Senior Exit Survey during the spring quarter of 2014 and continues to administer the survey each term. The survey is composed of a core set of questions designed to obtain information from graduating undergraduate students regarding post-graduation career and graduate education activities, entrepreneurial interest, military service, satisfaction with their experiences at the University, student perceptions and future contact information. The Senior Exit Survey offers no incentive to the students for completion. Complete copies of the Senior Exit Survey (SES) instruments are available on the web.

Methodology

Information on post-graduation outcomes is collected by the Senior Exit Survey using the Qualtrics Research Suite, a leading enterprise survey software. Questions in the core were collaboratively determined by OIR staff, Steinbright Career Development Center (SCDC), and the Survey Liaison Group. The latter was formed in the fall of 2013 by OIR. The Survey Liaison Group members were appointed by the deans, and consist of representatives from each of the centers, schools and colleges of the university. The purpose of the working group is to facilitate easy and consistent communication among and between the colleges as well as to serve as conduits to OIR for all matters related to the development and refinement of the surveys and the process. Each of the members of the group oversees their college specific questions [if the school or college chooses to have them]. Additionally, the liaisons gauge their school, college or center’s input into the items on the instrument(s), and communicates any unique perspective that their college or school might have concerning the survey process itself.

While the core items were developed to be a stand-alone component of the survey process, individual programs/colleges/schools also retained the ability to append additional questions at their discretion and determination which would automatically be presented to the student seamlessly at the conclusion of the core survey. It should be noted that, starting in 2014, the survey included the LeBow College of Business data, which heretofore had been independent of this all-university approach.

Finally, OIR has established and distributed a post-survey data management and reporting plan. The plan has been reviewed and adopted by the Survey Liaison Group and will provide a roadmap for future data gathering and reporting functions.