When you log into Graduate Insights, you'll find two dashboards: Graduate Outcomes and Graduate Explorer. Both provide access to powerful alumni data, each built for different use cases. Here's how to think about them.
Note: Depending on your access level, you may have access to one or both dashboards. Contact your Graduate Insights administrator or [email protected] with any questions about your access.
Graduate Outcomes
Graduate Outcomes is your high-level view. It has fewer filters than Graduate Explorer, but gives you deeper insight into employer hiring trends and skills data across your graduate population. It's the right starting point when you need a broad picture fast.
Graduate Outcomes works well for:
Program Outcomes: Explore employer and skills trends by college or major to evaluate how specific programs are performing. See how the University of Maryland Baltimore County showcases alumni outcomes by major.
Employer Relations: The Employer Trends tab shows hiring activity over the past 10 years, including which employers are trending up and which are trending down. Hear how Georgia Highlands College uses employer data for employer relations.
Accreditation and Reporting: Filter graduate outcomes by college, major, degree level, and graduation year to support accreditation reporting and other institutional needs. Hear more about how Western Illinois University uses Steppingblocks for accreditation and reporting.
Institutional Research: Graduate Outcomes helps IR teams answer campus-wide questions about hiring trends, skills demand, and alumni outcomes quickly and accurately.
Marketing and Communications: Use top employer, skills, and program-specific outcome data to tell the story of your institution and highlight what your graduates go on to accomplish.
Admissions and Enrollment: Demonstrate return on investment to prospective students with data on top employers, salary outcomes, and skills your graduates bring to the workforce.
Career Services: Show students the top employers and in-demand skills for their program so they can walk out of advising appointments with a clearer picture of what's possible.
Graduate Explorer
Graduate Explorer goes deeper. It expands on the filters in Graduate Outcomes and lets you view alumni data at the individual level, including demographic and firmographic details. You can also download a spreadsheet of alumni profiles to analyze further in Excel, Tableau, or other tools.
Graduate Explorer works well for:
Alumni Relations and Advancement: Individual-level data is where Graduate Explorer shines for these teams. View job title, company, location, estimated salary, and more for specific alumni.
Employer Relations: Use individual-level data to identify which employers are hiring your graduates and build more targeted outreach for recruitment partnerships, job fairs, and employer engagement initiatives. Graduate Explorer gives you the granularity to go beyond trends and see exactly where your alumni are landing. Hear how Florida Atlantic University leverages the data in building strong employer relationships.
Career Services: See how many alumni are working in roles relevant to their field of study, and identify graduates employed out-of-field who may benefit from career services outreach. Hear how Florida International University uses Graduate Explorer for alumni career services.
Institutional Research: Download CSV files and bring your alumni data into Excel, Tableau, or other platforms for deeper analysis and custom reporting.
Program Outcomes: Assess program performance in greater detail, especially when demographic or firmographic context matters.
Note: Depending on your access level, names and contact information for alumni may not be visible. Contact your Graduate Insights administrator or the Partner Success team with any questions.
For more on how to get the most out of both dashboards, visit the Graduate Insights Use Cases section of the Help Center.