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First Destination Dashboard

This dashboard enables users to explore information about recent graduates’ first destination, including activities after graduation, employment and income details, and plans for further education. The First Destination Dashboard displays combined responses from the Graduating Student Survey (GSS) and our annual Follow-Up Survey.

The Graduating Student Survey is administered to all undergraduate and graduate students graduating in a given academic year in the fall and spring terms. A follow-up survey is administered annually to students who did not respond to the GSS or who indicated they were seeking employment. The results of those two surveys are then combined and the quantitative results are provided in the following dashboard.

View the additional results from the GSS on our Graduating Student Survey Interactive Dashboard.

A list of adjustments to the data in the 2024-2025 dashboard are posted below the dashboard or are available here in a PDF. To access a copy of the Follow-Up Survey, click here. Past survey results are made available upon request to ie@boisestate.edu.

First Destination Dashboard

Recent adjustments have been made to academic plans and departmental structures. These changes ensure that historical records align with our current organizational hierarchy and that interdisciplinary programs are accurately represented.

College & Department Realignment
Several programs have been relocated or renamed to better reflect their academic alignment.

College of Education: Now officially houses Counselor Education and Organizational Performance.

Department Name Updates: The following legacy names have been updated in all systems:

OLD REFERENCENEW OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT / PLAN
Community & Env Hlth departmentPublic & Population Health department
Communication & Media departmentSplit into their current respective departments of Communication OR Media
Historical College of Education departmentsEducational Leadership, Research and Technology
OR
Teaching, Learning and Community Engagement
CORE academic plans (prefix)Cyber Operations & Resilience (formerly in Elect & Computer Engr department)
CONMGMT GC academic planConflict Management (formerly in Public Policy & Admin department)
DISPRESOLU academic planPublic Policy & Admin (formerly in School of Public Service department)

Co-Owned Academic Plans
To ensure fair administrative oversight, Co-Owned programs are now formally counted within both participating departments.

The following degree plans are affected by this dual-counting update:

  • BEA BS: Economics (COBE) | IT-SCM (COBE)
  • BME-PHD: Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering (COEN) | Kinesiology (COHS)
  • COMP PHD & CYBER MS: Mathematics (COAS) | Computer Science (COEN)
  • HYDRSCI MS: Civil Engineering ( COEN) | Geosciences (COAS)
  • ENVSTD BA, ENVSCI BS, & MEM: School of the Environment (COAS) | Environmental Studies (SPS)

    Scope Note: This list specifically accounts for co-owned plans identified within the current pool of survey respondents.

Because several programs are co-owned by multiple departments and/or colleges, you will notice a difference between departmental totals and the university’s distinct headcounts.

University-Wide Totals: Respondents are counted only once to provide a distinct headcount of unique individuals.

Department/College Totals: Respondents in co-owned programs are counted in each participating department/college. A student in a co-owned program (e.g., Cyber MS) is counted in both the Mathematics (COAS) and Computer Science (COEN) departments.

Impact on Metrics: Because of this, total departmental/college counts may appear higher than the university’s distinct total. This also results in slight adjustments to percentage distributions across the various units. This may cause slight shifts in percentage distributions when comparing year-over-year data.