Track alumni outcomes, from completion to career
Unlock insight into your students' education and career pathways, and the ways your institution prepared them for success.
Get the answers you need to satisfy stakeholders, improve programs, and support student success.
"Where do our students go when they graduate?"
Amidst stubborn skepticism about the value of higher education, reliable data on alumni outcomes — in terms of career, not just completion — is more valuable than ever. Highlighting your past students’ current job titles, employers, and skills helps you more fully capture, evaluate, and communicate the impact of your academic programs.
But descriptive data is only half the story. Insight into alumni sentiment helps you go further by illuminating how your past students feel about their educational experience, career outcomes, financial ROI, and more.
Combined, these two sources (descriptive data and alumni sentiment) enable institutions to create a continuous feedback loop that informs and improves learner career success.
Get key qualitative and quantitative metrics on alumni outcomes:
Top employers for each program's graduates
Alumni career satisfaction and perception of return on educational investment
Top skills alumni include in their online professional profiles
Additional programs your alumni go on to complete at other institutions
Use descriptive alumni outcomes data to quickly access and analyze education and career pathways
How can I use descriptive alumni outcomes data?
Program review
Validate successful programs, discover new opportunities, and identify programs that may be underperforming.
See how other institutions are using alumni data
University of California System
The University of California used alumni data to increase transparency around career outcomes and demonstrate the value of a UC degree. By launching a public, interactive dashboard powered by Lightcast data, UC made program-level alumni careers, employers, locations, skills, and estimated earnings easy to explore—supporting student decision-making, public accountability, and storytelling that highlights alumni impact across California and beyond.
Lake Washington Institute of Technology (WA)
Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech) is using alumni data to attract funding and support guided pathways implementation. In particular, employment outcome data has helped them secure grants by demonstrating that their graduates get in-demand jobs at some of the premier employers in their region.
Coastline College (CA)
Coastline College built Tableau dashboards around their alumni's career pathways data so faculty and administration can evaluate career outcomes, identify equity gaps, and provide current students with data-informed career advising.
Go further with alumni sentiment data that illuminates career satisfaction, perception of educational value, and high-impact career readiness practices.
What does alumni sentiment data cover?
CAREER INSIGHTS
Number of jobs, industries, titles, geography, full vs. part-time, graduate school completion rate, internships during and after degree.
Two tools for gathering alumni sentiment data
Simplify messaging & outreach efforts
Embark includes a customizable messaging and marketing toolkit to help you engage graduates and maximize response rates.
Streamlined data collection and access
Embark helps you automate data collection and cleaning while providing a centralized access point to your first destination results via user-friendly dashboards and analytics.
Shareable assets and deliverables
Embark's intuitive data visualizations breath life into outcomes data, enabling institutions to present compelling narratives and engage stakeholders in an impactful way.
Holistic alumni insights
Understand alumni’s career satisfaction, economic mobility, and community engagement 5 and 10 years after graduation, including their perception of how your campus equipped them for success.
National benchmarks for comparison
Peer comparisons and national benchmarking provide additional context to help you spot institutional strengths, and areas for improvement.
High-impact career readiness practices
Improve student success with insight into six high-impact practices that have been statistically proven to enable career mobility and satisfaction.
Find the Right Solution
Alumni Pathways (Software)
Get up-do-date employment outcomes data for each of your academic programs. Track transfers, completions, and career pathways in one platform.
Embark (first destination survey)
Elevate decision making and demonstrate ROI with insight and analytics from the Embark first destination survey.
NACM (alumni career mobility survey)
Get robust insight into you alumni's career preparation, satisfaction, and economic mobility beyond the first job with the National Alumni Career Mobility survey (NACM).
Wondering which solutions are right for your institution?
We'd love to learn more about the work you're doing and explore how our comprehensive alumni data solutions can help.
