The University of New Mexico has just completed its first annual graduate follow up survey of graduating seniors for spring semester 2003. Students were asked if they are working or attending graduate school after they graduated from UNM. The results show nursing students are in very high demand.
The demand is reflected in the responses from 39 graduates. Their average salary is $44,464. That’s a little less than first year graduates from the law school, who reported an average of $44,474, and more than first year engineering graduates who reported an average of $37,963.
Eight hundred fourteen students participated in the survey from a graduating class of more than 2,200. “We were pleased to find as many students as we did,” says survey director, Leslye Ellison. “Once students graduate, they tend to scatter, and it is sometimes hard to find them a year after graduation. We are working now to try to bring more graduating seniors into the process this year.”
Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627
Posted by kwentworth at August 26, 2004 01:59 PM