Data from the school’s 2009 senior survey show that students are doing well on the job market! Nearly 75 percent of students responding either had jobs upon graduation or had strong job prospects. Coupled with the traditional rate of 20 percent of seniors who go immediately to graduate school, these numbers indicate that 95 percent of all graduates are moving forward in their chosen fields.

The survey was completed by 173 students for a 48.3 percent return rate, a rate comparable with that of past surveys and greater than average survey returns. Of the 173 students responding, 30.6 percent said they had a job upon graduation. Students who did not have a job upon graduation were asked if they had significant job prospects. Sixty-three percent of those without solid jobs said they had strong job prospects.

This compares to 38 percent last year who had jobs upon graduation and 60 percent of the remainder who had strong job prospects.

For students specializing in advertising, 25 percent had jobs; in electronic journalism, 22 percent; in news-editorial, 42 percent; in public relations, 30 percent; and in visual communication, 28 percent.

For advertising students, 62 percent had strong job prospects; electronic journalism, 55 percent; news-editorial, 52 percent; public relations, 60 percent; and visual communication, 80 percent.

Students responded in roughly the same percentages as they are distributed through the specializations.

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