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How Much Money Will You Make After Graduation?
Career services releases last year's graduate survey
Diana Lesperance
Issue date: 4/22/04 Section: News
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You're a sophomore now, and you really need to begin decisions about what to do with the rest of the life. You're on the bubble though and you can't decide between your two passions--accouting and creative writing. Even though they're both fascinating to you, it's been difficult to make up your mind. You need some hard facts, something to help you decide what to do. When you were sixteen, writing seemed like a great pursuit, but now you have to make a car payment, and auto insurance is unbelievably expensive. Soon you'll want a place to live, other than Krueger Hall or with your parents, and you hate it when your stomach growls. Maybe having money and a job has become more important to you than writing that screenplay. If so, you may want to look over the Lakeland College Graduate Survey for information on where the money and jobs are.
The Career Development Office recently released the 2002-03 report which gives information such as placement rates by major, the most successful methods of finding employment, average salary rates by major, and satisfaction with a major as preparation for a career.
Lisa Lindsay, director of career development, says she's "pleased with this year's placement rate in spite of the tough economy."
Lindsay's staff, which includes Lakeland students, works in the evenings of September and October to make follow-up phone calls to students who had graduated in the spring.
Former students were asked to respond to surveys over the phone. (So if you're graduating this year and you get a phone call from Career Services on some fall evening, please don't hang up. They only want two minutes of your time, and they're not trying to sell anything!) The response rate for Day Program graduates was 94%.
The results for this year were comparable to results in previous years, although there were a higher number of graduates who had to look for work outside their major. Some of the majors that consistently found jobs in their area of study were hospitality management, accounting, and education.
The most popular majors at Lakeland are education and business. According to the report, the salary rate for education majors is $24,412. For business majors, the salary rate is $44,046. Other popular majors are criminal justice ($28,344) and exercise science ($32,500).
The most successful way that graduates found jobs was by networking (25%). Graduates also found jobs through the internet (24%), internships (13%), former employers (20%), and classified ads (10%). Four percent of students found their jobs through the Career Development Office and no students found jobs through job fairs. About half the students characterized their job search as being difficult. The other half said it was either easy or what they expected.
The Career Development Office recently released the 2002-03 report which gives information such as placement rates by major, the most successful methods of finding employment, average salary rates by major, and satisfaction with a major as preparation for a career.
Lisa Lindsay, director of career development, says she's "pleased with this year's placement rate in spite of the tough economy."
Lindsay's staff, which includes Lakeland students, works in the evenings of September and October to make follow-up phone calls to students who had graduated in the spring.
Former students were asked to respond to surveys over the phone. (So if you're graduating this year and you get a phone call from Career Services on some fall evening, please don't hang up. They only want two minutes of your time, and they're not trying to sell anything!) The response rate for Day Program graduates was 94%.
The results for this year were comparable to results in previous years, although there were a higher number of graduates who had to look for work outside their major. Some of the majors that consistently found jobs in their area of study were hospitality management, accounting, and education.
The most popular majors at Lakeland are education and business. According to the report, the salary rate for education majors is $24,412. For business majors, the salary rate is $44,046. Other popular majors are criminal justice ($28,344) and exercise science ($32,500).
The most successful way that graduates found jobs was by networking (25%). Graduates also found jobs through the internet (24%), internships (13%), former employers (20%), and classified ads (10%). Four percent of students found their jobs through the Career Development Office and no students found jobs through job fairs. About half the students characterized their job search as being difficult. The other half said it was either easy or what they expected.