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PrintGraduation, Employment 2012
- McMaster
- Program Total
- System Total
Graduation, Employment and OSAP Loan Default Rates:
McMaster University
2012| Program | Graduation1 | Employment Rate2 | Default3 | |
| Rate | 6 months | 2 years | Rate | |
| Medicine | 99.3% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.00% |
| Business & Comm | 89.1% | 88.7% | 95.5% | 0.60% |
| Engineering | 87.7% | 82.1% | 92.7% | 2.80% |
| Fine Arts | 83.3% | 72.7% | 88.0% | 0.00% |
| Nursing | 89.6% | 96.6% | 99.3% | 0.00% |
| Kin/Rec/PhysEd | 97.1% | 90.2% | 95.9% | 0.00% |
| Theology | 5 | 94.7% | 100.0% | 0.00% |
| Therapy & Rehab | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.00% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 87.5% | 89.7% | 2.20% |
| Humanities | 5 | 90.6% | 92.2% | 2.50% |
| Other Arts & Sci | 84.8% | 79.7% | 85.3% | 5.40% |
| Agriculture & Bio Sci | 5 | 79.3% | 88.1% | 0.60% |
| Computer Sci | 5 | 4 | 100.0% | 0.00% |
| Mathematics | 88.0% | 87.5% | 84.6% | 0.00% |
| Other Health Prof | 94.7% | 94.8% | 96.6% | 0.00% |
| Physical Sci | 5 | 90.9% | 92.9% | 0.00% |
| Institution Rate | 87.2% | 87.9% | 92.8% | 2.1% |
1. Percent of year 1 students in bachelors or first professional degree programs in 2003 who subsequently received a degree between 2004 and 2010.
2. Percentage of 2009 graduates of bachelors or first professional degree programs who were employed 6 months and 2 years after graduation.
3. OSAP default rate reflects the July 2011 repayment status of students who were issued
Ontario Student Loan in 2008-2009 and did not receive OSAP funding in 2009-10.
Typically, these students would have exited studies at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. Includes undergraduate and graduate students.
4. For employment rate, sample size of four or fewer individuals.
5. Data not available / not reported.
Key Performance Indicators by Program (Program Total)
2012| 2012 | |||||
| Program | Graduation1 | Employment Rate2 | OSAP3 | ||
| Rate | 6 months | 2 years | Default Rate | ||
| Dentistry | 96.6% | 100.0% | 97.4% | 0.0% | |
| Education | 98.3% | 88.0% | 94.1% | 1.1% | |
| Other Education | 92.1% | 5 | 5 | 0.0% | |
| Law | 93.1% | 93.0% | 94.5% | 1.4% | |
| Medicine | 97.7% | 98.6% | 99.1% | 0.0% | |
| Optometry | 100.0% | 100.0% | 97.0% | 0.0% | |
| Pharmacy | 95.9% | 98.9% | 98.9% | 0.0% | |
| Vet Medicine | 100.0% | 97.6% | 100.0% | 0.0% | |
| Forestry | 68.0% | 77.8% | 100.0% | 0.0% | |
| Arch & Landsc Arch | 87.3% | 89.4% | 96.1% | 1.4% | |
| Business & Comm | 81.1% | 88.6% | 95.6% | 2.6% | |
| Engineering | 82.8% | 83.7% | 93.8% | 2.2% | |
| Fine Arts | 74.2% | 82.8% | 90.4% | 4.9% | |
| Food Science | 88.2% | 91.2% | 95.0% | 1.9% | |
| Journalism | 81.7% | 81.5% | 93.3% | 0.0% | |
| Nursing | 89.2% | 95.1% | 98.9% | 2.0% | |
| Kin/Rec/PhysEd | 85.2% | 92.0% | 94.4% | 4.0% | |
| Theology | 80.0% | 95.2% | 100.0% | 4.8% | |
| Therapy & Rehab | 90.1% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.3% | |
| Social Sciences | 76.0% | 86.2% | 91.2% | 4.7% | |
| Humanities | 76.1% | 87.3% | 90.7% | 4.2% | |
| Other Arts & Science | 78.7% | 87.2% | 90.2% | 5.3% | |
| Agriculture & Bio Sci | 81.5% | 84.1% | 90.2% | 3.1% | |
| Computer Science | 71.4% | 85.6% | 96.2% | 2.9% | |
| Mathematics | 79.7% | 82.1% | 93.1% | 0.0% | |
| Other Health Prof | 86.5% | 87.1% | 93.4% | 3.2% | |
| Physical Science | 73.1% | 82.9% | 89.5% | 0.0% | |
| Program Rate | 81.0% | 87.5% | 93.1% | 3.6% 4 | |
2. Percentage of 2009 graduates of bachelors or first professional degree programs who were employed 6 months and 2 years after graduation.
3. OSAP default rate reflects the July 2011 repayment status of students who were issued Ontario Student Loan in 2008-2009 and did not receive OSAP funding in 2009-10. Typically, these students would have exited studies at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. Includes undergraduate and graduate students.
4. Total default rate also includes students who were not matched to a particular program.
5. Data not available / not reported.
Key Performance Indicators by Institution (System Total)
2012| University | Graduation Rate 1 | Employment Rate 2 | |
| 6 months | 2 years | ||
| Algoma | 58.6% | 82.9% | 92.5% |
| Brock | 80.1% | 91.9% | 93.3% |
| Carleton | 70.5% | 84.5% | 91.7% |
| Guelph | 81.7% | 89.5% | 93.5% |
| Hearst | 65.6% | 80.0% | 4 |
| Lakehead | 78.8% | 87.2% | 93.6% |
| Laurentian | 73.1% | 92.1% | 94.8% |
| McMaster | 87.2% | 87.9% | 92.8% |
| Nipissing | 85.2% | 87.9% | 93.7% |
| OCAD | 67.8% | 75.2% | 91.0% |
| Ottawa | 80.7% | 90.5% | 94.2% |
| Queen's | 92.2% | 88.5% | 92.8% |
| Ryerson | 77.5% | 88.4% | 94.8% |
| Toronto | 83.2% | 85.1% | 91.7% |
| Trent | 72.2% | 88.3% | 91.2% |
| UOIT | 73.0% | 84.4% | 95.3% |
| Waterloo | 84.0% | 87.0% | 93.5% |
| Western | 87.1% | 88.2% | 94.2% |
| Wilfrid Laurier | 84.2% | 89.2% | 94.8% |
| Windsor | 75.8% | 82.9% | 91.1% |
| York | 76.5% | 87.5% | 91.7% |
| System Total Rate | 81.0% | 87.5% | 93.1% |
1. Percent of year 1 students in bachelors or first professional degree programs in 2003 who subsequently received a degree between 2004 and 2010 in any program area.
2. Percentage of 2009 graduates of bachelors or first professional degree programs who were employed 6 months and 2 years after graduation.
3. OSAP default rate reflects the July 2011 repayment status of students who were issued
Ontario Student Loan in 2008-2009 and did not receive OSAP funding in 2009-10.
Typically, these students would have exited studies at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. Includes undergraduate and graduate students.
4. For employment rate, sample size of four or fewer individuals.
