Measuring Educational Success Thru Employment & Graduation Rates

As a follow up to my last blog post I wanted to share the employment & graduation rates for students that attend Ontario universities, which are the other two key performance indicators used by schools in Ontario. Employment rate could be increasing in importance as a high percentage of students attend post-secondary schools for the purpose of gaining a job. An article in University Affairs a few months back, which I'm struggling to find at the moment, suggested that 90% of students today attend college or university to get a job whereas a decade ago that number was closer to 50%.

University	Employment Rate After 6 Months(1)	Employment Rate After 2 Years(2)	Graduation Rate(3)
Brock	94.50%	96.20%	72.00%
Carleton	89.20%	95.70%	62.80%
Guelph	94.20%	95.50%	75.10%
Lakehead	92.80%	97.00%	73.00%
Laurentian	95.00%	97.20%	64.90%
Algoma	85.70%	84.20%	49.60%
Hearst	100.00%	100.00%	51.70%
McMaster	90.70%	95.80%	81.30%
Nipissing	94.30%	97.50%	86.20%
OCAD	90.30%	97.00%	53.60%
Ottawa	93.60%	96.50%	75.90%
Queen's	94.40%	96.90%	86.90%
Ryerson	92.10%	96.50%	70.50%
Toronto	90.30%	97.10%	79.80%
Trent	93.80%	94.30%	65.60%
Waterloo	94.70%	97.00%	78.20%
Western	94.30%	96.70%	79.20%
Wilfrid Laurier	94.90%	96.00%	79.40%
Windsor	92.50%	95.90%	72.20%
York	91.60%	94.30%	67.70%
Average	92.80%	96.20%	75.60%

This information was found on the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities' website, but the Accountability Gateway at each Ontario university website or the Council of Ontario University (COU) website are good alternate locations to find this type of info.

(Notes: (1) Percentage of 2004 graduates of bachelors or first professional degree programs who were employed six months after graduation. (2) Percentage of 2004 graduates of bachelors or first professional degree programs who were employed two years after graduation. (3) Percent of year 1 students in bachelors or first professional degree programs in 1998 who subsequently received a degree between 1999 and 2005 in any program of study.)