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1999 Graduating Senior Student Survey:
College Comparisons
Introduction

This Web document points to tables reporting the frequency distributions of responses by college to questions in the 1999 Graduating Senior Survey. You can use the index below to link to web tables of college comparisons by topic, or directly download an Excel file of results by college for all survey items. Survey results for all respondents are provided in "1999 Graduating Senior Survey: All Respondents." For information about the survey and analysis methods see "1999 Graduating Senior Survey: Introduction, Methods, and Student Demographic Profile." Exact question wording is available on the web, or by clicking on the survey item number in the tables.

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 1999 Graduating Senior Survey range from +1.6 percent in the College of Management to +12.5 percent in Design. When looking at reported response distributions, it is important to keep the college margin of error in mind.

Table 1: Response Rate and Margin of Error by Academic Unit

Senior Class

Survey Respondents

Response Rate

Margin of Error

Academic Unit

%

N

%

N

Agriculture and Life Science

21.5%

408

20.1%

192

47.1%

3.7%

Design

4.1%

78

2.7%

26

33.3%

12.8%

Education and Psychology

6.3%

119

4.3%

41

34.5%

10.0%

Engineering

21.4%

405

19.0%

182

44.9%

4.0%

Forest Resources

5.4%

103

7.0%

67

65.0%

4.2%

Humanities and Social Sciences

15.6%

296

10.2%

98

33.1%

6.6%

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

4.9%

93

6.8%

65

69.9%

3.7%

Textiles

6.2%

117

7.9%

76

65.0%

3.9%

Management

14.6%

277

21.9%

210

75.8%

1.6%

Total

100.0%

1,896

100.0%

957

50.5%

1.6%


Index of Results of College Comparisons by Topic

Student Goals and Intentions:
Goals and Objectives | Post-Graduate Plans

Academic Environment and Faculty Contributions:
Satisfaction with Education | Intellectual Environment | Quality of Instruction | Faculty Contributions

Campus Climate

Services for Students
Academic Services : Academic Advising | Research Support | Technology Services
Non-Academic Services: Service Areas | Staff Responsiveness
Financial Aid

Knowledge, Skills and Personal Development:
NC State's Contributions
Goals: General Education | World Views | Personal Development

Employment and Extracurricular Activities:
Employment | Activities



For more information on the 1999 Graduating Senior Survey contact:
Dr. Nancy Whelchel, Associate Director for Survey Research
Office of Institutional Planning and Research
Box 7002
NCSU
Phone: (919) 515-4184
Email: Nancy_Whelchel@ncsu.edu

Posted: June 2000

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