Some Basically Awful Graduate Outcomes Data

By Alex Usher. Yesterday, the Council of Ontario Universities released the results of the Ontario Graduates’ Survey for the class of 2012. This document is a major source of information regarding employment and income for the province’s university graduates.  And despite the chipperness of the news release (“the best path to a job is still a university degree”), it actually tells a pretty awful story when you do things like, you know, place it in historical context, and adjust the results to account for inflation. More...