This Web document points to tables reporting frequency distributions of responses by college to questions in the 2007-2008 Graduating Senior Survey. You can use the index below to link to web tables of college comparisons by topic. Survey results for all respondents are provided in "2007-2008 Graduating Senior Survey: All Respondents." For information about the survey and analysis methods see "2007-2008 Graduating Senior Survey: Introduction, Methods, and Student Demographic Profile." Exact question wording is available on the "2007-2008 Graduating Senior Survey."
The number of seniors responding from each college varies widely. As noted in the introductory report on the survey's methods, both the actual number of respondents and the response rate effects the margin of error of the results reported. Table 1 below provides information on the number and proportion of students responding to the survey from each college, as well as the response rate and margin of error for the college. The margin of error in results reported for individual colleges in the 2007-2008 Graduating Senior Survey ranges from ± 0.8 in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to ± 8.8 in the College of Education. When looking at reported response distributions, it is important to keep the college margin of error in mind.
Colleges with less than a 25 percent response rate have been excluded from the tables reporting survey responses by college. Percentages based on only a few students, or on a small percentage of the graduating seniors in the college, could present misleading portraits of students' characteristics, attitudes, and opinions.
Table 1: Response Rate and Margin of Error by College (December and May Graduates)College | Senior Class % (N) |
Survey Respondents % (N) |
Response Rate |
Margin of Error |
---|---|---|---|---|
Agriculture and Life Sciences | 681 (18.2%) |
313
(15.0%) |
46.0% | ±3.0 |
Design* | 101 (2.7%) |
8 (0.4%) |
7.9% | ±31.9 |
Education | 152 (4.1%) |
53 (2.5%) |
34.9% | ±8.8 |
Engineering | 811 (21.7%) |
415 (19.9%) |
51.2% | ±2.3 |
Natural Resources | 212 (5.7%) |
68 (3.3%) |
32.1% | ±8.1 |
Humanities and Social Sciences | 915 (24.4%) |
725 (34.8%) |
79.2% | ±0.8 |
Physical and Mathematical Sciences | 190 (5.1%) |
99 (4.8%) |
52.1% | ±4.7 |
Textiles | 119 (3.2%) |
69 (3.3%) |
58.0% | ±5.0 |
Management | 563 (15.0%) |
332 (15.9%) |
59.0% | ±2.2 |
Total | 3,744 (100.0%) |
2,082 (100.0%) |
55.6% | ±1.0 |