Senior Exit Survey: 2021-2022
With post-college life on the horizon, 1,877 graduating seniors reflect on their stay at SDState.
During summer 2018, a representative taskforce (including individuals from each College, Office of Career Development and Office of Institutional Research and Assessment) designed a survey to collect information on graduating students’ overall perceptions of their undergraduate experience, abilities and knowledge related to general education goals, participation in High Impact Practices (HIPs), satisfaction with student service offices and their graduate education aspirations. This information helps inform strategies and goals for improving undergraduate students’ educational experiences at SDSU. The 2018-19 academic year was the pilot year for the survey. The results below are from the 2021-2022 survey.
Methods and analysis:
A majority of graduating seniors who completed the graduation application also participated in the Senior Exit Survey (93.3% response rate). The survey instrument consists of 50 questions in closed-ended response format.
The survey had items related to
- Overall experiences
- General education goals
- High-Impact Practices (HIPs)
- Graduate school aspirations
- Student services
Results
1,877 senior students participated in the 2021-2022 Senior Exit Survey (267 from summer 2021, 450 from fall 2021 and 1,160 from spring 2022).
Descriptive statistics were used for each survey item. Moderately agreed/satisfied, agreed/satisfied and strongly agreed/satisfied selections were combined to produce percentages of agreement and satisfaction.