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2008/2009 PERFORMANCE
INDICATORS
Measuring Graduation, Employment
and
OSAP Default Rates at
Lakehead
See also performance indicators for 1998/1999,
1999/2000,
2000/2001,
2001/02,
2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12.
Lakehead University joined the Ministry of
Training, Colleges and Universities and the Council of Ontario Universities in a
project to make information available regarding student's graduation rates,
graduate employment rates, and OSAP loan default rates.
2000 Cohort
Graduation Rate
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and
Universities calculated graduation rates by selecting all full-time, year one
undergraduate students from Fall 2000 who were seeking either a bachelors or
first professional degree and determining whether or not they graduated within 7
years. The subset was matched against the records for students who
received a degree from the same institution during the period
2001-2007.
It should be noted that students who
transferred to another institution, for example to pursue a program that
Lakehead does not offer such as medicine or dentistry, are not counted as a
graduate in Lakehead's rate.
2006 Graduates
Employment Rate
To determine employment rates of recent
graduates, Ontario universities conducted a survey of all 2006 graduates of
undergraduate degree programs. Graduates were asked about their employment
situation six months and two years after graduation. The 2006 Graduate Placement data
was collected via a mail-out survey during the period of December 2008 to March 2009.
Lakehead's response rate was 20.0%, up slightly from last year's rate (19.8%) and just under
this year's province-wide rate of 21.7%.
The survey measures the employment rate of
students employed or looking for work, as opposed to students who are continuing
their education or are out of the work force for personal reasons, 6 months and
2 years following graduation.
The data indicate that Lakehead's 2006 graduates have a high rate of employment with
96.9% employed two years after graduation, compared to the province-wide rate of 95.7%, and
92.4% employed six months after graduation, slightly under the province-wide rate of 94.1%.
The system overall rate is the rate used in
the performance indicators funding envelope and includes programs in the system
such as medicine, dentistry and law where both the graduation and employment
rate are virtually 100%.
2008
OSAP Loan Default Rate
The 2008 default rates reflect the repayment
status of both undergraduate and graduate students who received Ontario Student
Loans in the 2005-06 academic year and did not receive an Ontario Student Loan
in 2006-07, and who subsequently defaulted on their repayment obligations
approximately two years after graduation. An Ontario Student Loan is in
default when the Ontario government has paid the bank's claim for an inactive
loan. A loan is inactive when no payments were made by the student for at
least 90 days. Responsibility for recovery of defaulted accounts was
transferred to private collection agencies in January 1999.
For the purpose of calculating default
rates, student loan recipients/defaulters are assigned to the last
institution/program they attended in 2005-06. The status of these loans
was assessed as of July 2008 or about two years after entering into
repayment. Lakehead University's 2008 default rate for all programs is 5.6%,
a rise of only .5% from last year's 10-year low of 5.1%.
For more
information:
Kerrie-Lee Clarke, Director of
Institutional Analysis & Government Relations
807-343-8339
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