Exit Survey Response

Motivation

Administering an exit survey to students close to their graduation date can provide very useful outcome data on the degree program from the student's perspective, as well as a perspective on the immediate future of the student's professional career. Many schools already perform exit surveys. Here are some examples:

• Western Washington University Undergraduate Exit Survey
• Framington State University Undergraduate Student Exit Survey
• Stanislaus State Graduate School Exit Survey
• Indiana University PhD Student Exit Survey
• University of Texas School of Public Health Exit Survey
• University of Northern Colorado Graduate Student Exit Survey
• University of Washington Graduate School Exit Survey

Here is a particularly interesting exit survey question from Western Washington University:

Note that the UHM ICS Department has recently signed up to participate in the CRA Data Buddies Project. This project will hopefully yield useful data that can supplement exit survey data.

Rollup

Assuming the questions are on a five point scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree, then the rollup is the average value of responses to a single question.

Different visualizations can be used for categorical responses.

Drilldown: by demographic

Breakdowns by gender and/or member of underrepresented group.

Drilldown: by degree program

Breakdown by specific degree program.

Baseline

Public data sources such as the links above can be used to developed baselines if desired.