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Big Ten Grads More Likely to Have Useful Internships

More than one in three Big Ten alumni (36%) strongly agree they took part in internships or jobs where they applied what they were learning as undergrads, compared with three in 10 graduates of large universities.

Pac-12 Grads More Positive About Their Jobs Than Other Grads

Working graduates of current Pacific-12 (Pac-12) universities are more likely to be deeply interested in the work that they do (46%) than are graduates of other large U.S. universities outside the Pac-12 (42%).

Life in College Matters for Life After College

A new Gallup-Purdue study of college graduates finds the type of school these graduates attended matters less to their work lives and current well-being than their experiences while in school.

SEC Alumni Feel Stronger School Ties Than Other Grads

Graduates of Southeastern Conference universities are nearly twice as likely to feel emotionally attached to their alma maters (29%) as are graduates of U.S. universities outside the SEC (18%).

Many Tennessee Grads Say College Prepared Them Well for Life

A new research partnership exploring the experiences with and outcomes of higher education finds that nearly seven in 10 Tennessee college grads either strongly agree or agree their university prepared them well for life after college.

Nontraditional Grads in U.S. Not as Attached to Alma Mater

Nontraditional graduates -- individuals graduating college at age 25 or older -- are less likely to be emotionally attached to their college or university than traditional graduates, who complete college between the ages of 18 and 24.

Grads of Historically Black Colleges Have Well-Being Edge

A new Gallup-USA Funds report reveals that black graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the U.S. are more likely than black graduates of other institutions to be thriving in a number of areas of their lives.

10 Discoveries About U.S. College Grads

Gallup collaborated with Purdue University and Lumina Foundation to conduct a nationally representative study of U.S. college graduates with Internet access. Based on interviews with more than 30,000 graduates in early 2014, the Gallup-Purdue ...

Graduating College Later in Life Doesn't Hamper Income

Nontraditional college graduates -- those who graduate at age 25 or older -- report current personal incomes similar to those of traditional college graduates. But nontraditional graduates lag behind their traditional counterparts in well-being.

Student Debt Linked to Worse Health and Less Wealth

Americans who graduated college between 1990 and 2014 and took out over $50,000 in student loan debt are less likely to have thriving well-being than their fellow graduates who did not take out student loans.
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