What it measures
For each graduating class: the share employed, continuing to graduate or professional school, still seeking, or not seeking; median starting salary by program; and the most common employers and job titles. It follows a national standard so Porter's numbers can be compared to other institutions'.
Reading it honestly
Every figure is published with the response rate it's based on. A program's outcome number from a 40% response rate is labelled as such, not rounded up and presented as fact — the same principle as the Common Data Set.
In and around Porter Falls
Career Services works with every major, but the pattern is the same across them: a required internship, co-op or clinical placement before graduation, listed on each program page. Ninety-six percent of Porter undergraduates complete one, most of them with an employer in the Valley or the Cities.
The practical details
Run: Each year, reaching every graduating class at three and six months. Response rate: Published alongside the results, so the numbers can be read honestly. Uses: Program-level outcomes, the salary data the negotiation workshop uses, accreditation reporting. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Career Services (Founders Union, Room 160). Call (715) 555–0205 or email careers@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.