Job relationship to undergraduate major campus level survey results

One year after graduation1, University of Illinois Baccalaureate respondents
click on campus name to view college-level results Percent of graduates who find their current job and the major of their U of I degree... Number of respondents
...closely related ...related ...unrelated by choice ...unrelated not by choice
Urbana-Champaign Campus 57.9% 25.6% 9.7% 6.5% 2298
Chicago Campus 59.8% 24.3% 7.7% 7.9% 844
Springfield Campus N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
1Survey of the class of 2003 conducted in 2004
Highlights:
  • Over 80% of graduates from the Chicago and Urbana campuses have jobs related to their undergradute field of study.
  • More than half the respondents that are employed in a field unrelated to their major chose their employment path, indicating that they used their college education as broad preparation for their career.
  • The variance in the relationship between current jobs and undergraduate major across campuses is largely related to the different mix of academic majors and programs on each campus.
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