Alumni Career Dashboards

Alumni Career Insights

This dashboard enables users to explore career insights about Boise State alumni who have earned bachelor’s degrees or higher and whose career/employment information was publicly available and matched through the Lightcast (formerly EMSI) service. The Lightcast match rate IS NOT an employment rate. These data include career outcomes, employers, skills reported, location, and whether matched alumni are employed in or out of their field of study.

The data resulted from a project undertaken with Lightcast. The Lightcast process connects employment data to alumni using publicly available information gleaned from government sources, online job posting activity, and professional profiles/resumes. To determine whether an alumni was employed in or out of field, Lightcast assigned an occupation code to the career and then mapped the career codes back to the major field of study in which the person earned their degree. The mapping process uses information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Results should be interpreted with caution and considering the full context of available information:

• The results DO NOT provide calculated rates of employment/unemployment.
• The results contained in this dashboard are limited to alumni who had publicly available information on their employment/career.
• Results may be limited depending on the years of interest and fields of study as certain professions may not utilize online career portals as much as others and, thus, may have lower match rates.

Career & employment data reflects information obtained in late 2022 and includes Boise State graduates up through spring 2022. Please visit our Alumni Outcomes Project Data analysis page for more details on the project’s background, methods, and results.