Customer Perspective

Prepare students to effectively serve organizations in a global society.

Employer satisfaction with students’ international preparation

Compared to other business students nationally, our students performed very well on the international portion of the national Educational Testing Service (ETS) business field test. The college has recently initiated a number of global programs, which should improve employer's perception of our student's international preparation.

Utah State University

 

Alumni satisfaction with education

The USU Alumni office surveys graduates of the university approximately once every five years. The charts below are responses to two questions that are closely related and that ask alumni to assess their major department. No demographic data is available to describe the pool of alumni responding to this survey aside from the fact that they are a graduate of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business . These charts should not be interpreted as reflecting the opinion of those students graduating in 2002 and 2006; they include summed responses from all alumni.

Two different questions were asked, and we believe that the second question wasn’t clear in how it expected alumni to judge quality. Based on extensive assessment from other sources, we know that the apparent drop in quality as indicated by these responses does not reflect an actual decrease in the quality of our program. The wording used in the two questions was: 2002: What is your impression of USU in your major department? 2006: Quality of your major department at USU?

Utah State University

 

Number of students accepting employment within three months of graduation

Because of the rural location of Utah State University and the fact that most students having part-time jobs, many students do not begin looking for full-time employment in their field of study until they have graduated. Nearly all students are employed at least part-time while they are looking for a job in the location they want.

Utah State University

 

Average starting salaries for graduates

  2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006* 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009
Bachelor’s Degrees $33,448 $43,526 $42,322 $36,844 $42,019 $39,757 $45,372
Master’s Degrees $35,848 $48,147 $46,146 $43,724 $55,440 $48,998 $53,580

 

 

 

 *A limited sample of students was pooled in 2005-2006, due to a conversion to a new ERP system (Banner). The apparent drop in salaries is spurious, and we are confident that average student salaries continued to increase. Ongoing problems in the ERP system prevented accessing recent alumni contact data, which delayed the completion of the student salary survey.