Survey Highlights

A total of 3,120 students graduated from credit programs at SAIT during the 2008-09 academic year.  SAIT contracted Insightrix Research, Inc. to conduct a follow up study of those graduates.  Graduates were contacted between January 26 and April 18, 2010.  In total, 2,099 graduates from regular program completed the survey for a response rate of 67%.  WIth this response rate, the margin of error is equal to plus or minus 1.2 percentage points at 95% confidence, finite population correction factor applied.

Nearly all graduates are currently in the labour force (97%) and of those, 91% are currently employed or have worked for three or more months prior to completing the survey.   This represents a notable drop from previous years' results.  Seven in ten have found training related employment (71%), a smaller proportion than in prior years.  For full time training related employment, the median salary is $41,600 per year which represents drop from last year's result of $45,000.  Nine in ten have found full time employment (89%) and 83% have found ongoing employment.

In terms of location, most graduates remain in Calgary (75%) and a total of 91% remain within the province.

About one in four graduates are currently pursuing further education (23%), the highest proportion of students within the ten years of data collection.

• 3230 total records (incl. pre-empl)
• 2172 responses
• 67% response rate

View additional information on the methodology of the 2009 Graduate Employee Survey.

2009 Graduate  Employment Results