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ºÚÁÏÍø and Gallup
Gallup is a trusted partner in ºÚÁÏÍø’s effort to create pathways to opportunity for our students. Each year, Gallup conducts the Alumni Survey to check in with ºÚÁÏÍø graduates and ask questions about their student experience, their career progression after graduation, and their overall wellbeing. The results have shown that ºÚÁÏÍø’s effort to provide a personalized, quality education and individualized support for each student—one by one—has led to a challenging and valuable educational experience delivered to students in an accessible and affordable way. In fact, ºÚÁÏÍø alumni’s responses to the survey areÌýoverwhelmingly more positive than the responses of students in the national, non-ºÚÁÏÍø sample.
As the number of ºÚÁÏÍø graduates continues to slope upward, so will the scale of our impact.ÌýScale matters. But at our core, our primary motivation is the person.ÌýWe are driven first and foremost by the one-by-one impact we can have on individual lives and families. And as these reports show, our personalized attention to each student will continue to have a massive positive impact on our graduates, their families, their employers, and their communities.
ºÚÁÏÍø 2024 Alumni Survey
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Between November 2024 and January 2025, Gallup surveyed more than 1,100 ºÚÁÏÍø alumni who completed their programs between 2019 and 2023 and asked about their education and career outcomes compared to bachelor’s degree holders nationally. Ìý
What they found is that ºÚÁÏÍø alumni see value in their education, are more likely to be engaged at work, and use the job-relevant skills gained through their degree programs at higher rates than their national peers.
ºÚÁÏÍø 25th Anniversary Impact Report
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ºÚÁÏÍø was founded in 1997 to connect talented students with educational opportunities that lead to personal and professional success. To quantify the impact ºÚÁÏÍø has had in its first 25 years, we commissioned Gallup to study the economic effects of a ºÚÁÏÍø degree.ÌýThis report’s insights draw from ºÚÁÏÍø’s alumni database, which at the time of this report contained 163,354 graduates, along with Gallup survey data of ºÚÁÏÍø and non-ºÚÁÏÍø alumni nationwide, and rich administrative sources from the Department of Education’s IPEDS database, College Scorecard and other federal statistical programs. The data show ºÚÁÏÍø has indeed expanded access to a college education, delivering affordable degrees in high‑demand fields to hundreds of thousands of graduates, most of whom are non-traditional students, such as working parents. The result is that most alumni complete their degrees quickly, with little debt and high salaries.
In September 2022, Gallup hosted ºÚÁÏÍø leaders at an event in Washington D.C. where they discussed the findings of the 2021 Alumni Survey and the 25th Anniversary Economic Report with a guest panel. These are highlights from that event.
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