Gainful Employment Focus Groups - Students, For Profit and Public Institutions

Attachment E – Student Ranking Sheet 1

Ranking Exercise #1 (Sub-elements) for Students

Gainful Employment Information

Instructions: As we go through the focus group, we will periodically pause the discussion and the moderator will ask you to make a selection under each of these lettered sections. In each of these sections, please think about which item is most important or useful to you as a student when thinking about selecting a program of study or college.

Please only place one check within each set of items, EXCEPT for items C and D.

1. Median loan debt

Check one of the three items for median loan debt that is most important to you:

Students who completed the program during the most recently completed award year

Students who withdrew from the program during the most recently completed award year

All of the students who completed and withdrew from the program during the most recently completed award year

2. Loan repayment rate

Check one of the three loan repayment rates that is most important to you:

All students who enrolled in the program

Students who completed the program

Students who withdrew from the program

3. Completion rates for FULL-TIME STUDENTS

Check TWO (2) of the four completion rates that are most important to you:

Completed within 100% of the length of the program for full-time students

Completed within 150% of the length of the program for full-time students

Completed within 200% of the length of the program for full-time students

Completed within 300% of the length of the program for full-time students

4. Completion rates for PART-TIME STUDENTS

Check TWO (2) of the four completion rates that are most important to you:

Completed within 100% of the length of the program for part-time students

Completed within 150% of the length of the program for part-time students

Completed within 200% of the length of the program for part-time students

Completed within 300% of the length of the program for part-time students

5. Withdrawal rates

Check one of the two withdrawal rates that is most important to you:

Percentage of students who withdrew from program within 100% of the program length

Percent of students who withdrew from the program within 150% of the program length

6. Job placement rate

Check one of the three placement rates you think is most meaningful or useful to you.

Placement rate for the program

Placement rate for the institution

Placement rates for the program and the institution

7. Mean or median earnings

Check one of the two based on whether you find “mean” or “median” earnings easier to understand:

Mean earnings

Median earnings

8. Mean or median earnings

Check one of the three mean or median earnings that is most important to you:

Students who completed the program during the cohort period

Students who were in withdrawn status at the end of the cohort period

All of the students who completed the program or were in withdrawn status

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