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Gilian Smith ’08,
a psychology major, talks with University of Buffalo
admissions assistant Dr. William Harden, during
the annual graduate school fair at SUNY Oswego.
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Graduate and professional school is an increasingly
popular option for students as they complete their bachelor’s
degrees at SUNY Oswego, a new survey shows.
Each year the college’s Career Services Office
surveys a recent class of graduates. In the latest survey,
the percentage of graduates reporting that they continued
their studies immediately after leaving Oswego rose
from 19 percent for the class of 2004 to 26.3 percent
for the class of 2005.
Behind that change, SUNY Oswego Director of Career Services
Bob Casper said, may be Oswego’s increasing efforts
to encourage students to consider graduate school and,
as the academic profile of incoming Oswego students
rises, simply more interest in and aptitude for advanced
study among students completing their undergraduate
degrees.
Casper said that his office has recognized that Oswego
students often come in with little knowledge of the
possibilities for study beyond the bachelor’s
degree and has begun to address it.
“We’re working to increase awareness of
our students about graduate school as an opportunity,”
he said. Last year, “we had a week of graduate
school activities that we put together with the graduate
office.”
Graduate school jumped as an option for graduates across
the college -- in arts and sciences, business and education
-- but was largest for those in the School of Education,
where the percentage leapt from 23 percent to 36.8 percent.
Ninety-seven percent of survey respondents going on
to graduate school enrolled in New York universities
including Columbia, Fordham, St. John’s, Syracuse
and the University of Rochester. Among out-of-state
choices were Johns Hopkins University, University of
Maryland, San Francisco State University, and Washington
and Lee School of Law.
In other survey findings, the percentage of responding
graduates overall either working full time or pursuing
graduate study rose more than 4 percentage points over
the previous year to 87.6 percent. And the percentage
of respondents pursuing their destinies out of state
dropped about 15 percentage points.
Career Services staff reported an average salary of
$34,603 for respondents in the class of 2005, up from
$32,400 for the previous class.
Highs for various majors included $80,000 in information
science, $78,000 in business administration, $65,000
in wellness management, $61,800 in marketing, $60,000
in graphic design, $53,000 in vocational teacher preparation,
$51,500 in computer science, $51,000 in accounting and
$50,000 in communication studies, political science
and psychology.
The job market for new graduates has continued to improve
since the students in this survey graduated in 2005,
Casper said. “They’ve done pretty well,”
he said, and as national studies indicate that hiring
is well up again this year, the class of 2007 should
do even better.
—Julie Harrison Blissert |
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