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North Carolina State University and UNC-General Administration Survey Information

Survey	Administered				Survey Cycle		Years Available	Next Scheduled
	By:	To:	When:	How:	UPA	GA
First Year	UPA	all new Fall freshmen	Orientation (summer)	Paper Survey	yearly	yearly	'91 - '06	'07
Entering Transfer	UPA	all new Fall transfer	Orientation (summer)	Paper Survey	yearly	--	'95 - '00	discontinued
Sophomore	UPA	all 2nd-term sophomores (1)	spring	Web Survey w/ paper survey follow-up to non-respondents (by advisors)	bi-annually, even years (2)	bi-annually, even years	98, '99, '00, '02, '04, '06	'08
Graduating Senior (3)	UPA	all fall & spring graduates (4)	varies (typically at grad checkout)	Web (5)	yearly	even years (6)	'95 - '06	AY06-07
Alumni/ Employer (7)	UPA	all baccalaureates 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 yrs out (8)	spring	Web (9)	varies (about every 3 years)	--	95, '98, '03, '06	Spring '09
Alumni/ Employer	OP	sample of baccalaureates 1 year out	summer	paper & web with telephone follow-up (11)	--	odd years	'97, '99, '01(12)	Fall '04

(1) Specifically, those having completed between 45-59 credit hours, with at least 30 at NC State.
(2) Administered annually until 2000.
(3) Includes optional college/department insert surveys (changes to inserts allowed every other year [AY00-01, AY02-03]).
(4) Prior to December 2000 administered to spring grads only
(5) In AY00-01 and AY01-02 departments chose web or paper. Prior to December 2000 survey was available in paper only.
(6) OP survey results include only spring graduates.
(7) There was no employer survey in '03. Alumni surveys include optional college/departmental inserts.
(8) In the 1995 and 1998 surveys samples were used for the 6 largest departments.
(9) The '95 and '98 surveys were mailed paper surveys with telephone follow-up to sample of non-respondents.

(11) '97 was a telephone survey
(12) OP surveys with limited questions are available for earlier years.
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