An independently-led survey of graduates from Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation was recently conducted, to assess the overall status of employment. The infographic-rich document can be seen below.
“GSAPP 2012 - 6 Months After Graduation” is an attempt to capture the state of our class in our first year of post-gradschool life. Did we finally find a job? Did we move to another city? Another country? How many hours a week are we working? How much are we making? What software are we finally using? These are some of the questions this survey tries to answer, and in doing so, it may also serve as a snapshot of the architectural profession itself, how it treats its newest members and how it is doing in this fragile economy.
The survey was made up of 17 questions and was voluntarily responded by 63 graduates from the Masters of Architecture program at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.
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Peeked at the salaries. How incredibly sad.
Super interesting--thanks for sharing! A few things: 1. Obviously you have selection bias when the survey is voluntary. What proportion of the graduating class do these 63 responses represent? 2. It was interesting to see that those with architecture backgrounds are making more than those with non-architecture backgrounds (though putting this graphic in a circle looked amazing but was actually useless). The comparison according to previous internships and experience was also clever. 3. I really wish I could have seen this better! The way you've posted them online at issuu makes them almost illegible on my 13" Macbook Pro and didn't do your work justice.
the sad thing i noticed is just how ineffectual GSAAP is contributing to graduate employment. as much as they charge, i'm surprised you are revolting.
from kyu kim's reaction, i hardly know how to understand this information. being a mid-size city, midwest architect, a partner in a firm of 10: most new grads making ~71% of my salary doesn't seem so bad to me.
The survey represents about 70% of our graduating class. And you can download a higher resolution version of the project here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7595728/gsapp6mgrad.pdf
I'm curious why the "Type of Work" graph adds up to more than 100%? Are some people working in an architecture firm during the day and doing retail work at night?
Yes, it adds up to more than 100% because some people are doing multiple things at their work, fabrication, interior design and branding, for example.
Well-done guys. Very interesting and informative.
I don't think that is as bad as I expected, here is why:
* half the people got a job at a firm within a month; all of them were employed within 6 months.
* of which 89% are full-time jobs or freelance (most under 60 hours a week)
* 95% of students surveyed, and this is the big one i think, have less than 3-years of professional experience. Of course the salaries wont be $100,000.
3-years or less out of school, with a Masters, full-time employed, making on average above $50,000. Not bad. Not great, but not bad.
I'd be interested to know if the graduates are happy where they are at, what their attitudes are towards the profession are since graduating, and other soft data that would give another dimension to the survey. It's too bad this isn't a bigger more comprehensive survey, but I like the fact that this was initiated by fellow students.
actuall small, on average, they are making less than 50,000. based on a careful eyeballing, i'd say the average is 45k. consider that 50-55k is only the largest salary group, not the overall median.
What I am interesting is are these data take international students into account?
As far as I known, the international students is fairly difficult to get a job (someone told me 25% of the international student can find a job in US in a short time) I just curious whether is true or not. If International student is taken into account in this scenario, it will be great!!!
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