Graduate Outcomes
Why the university asks graduates where their careers took them, what the form asks, and what is done with the answers.
Why the university asks
A university only finds out whether a programme worked by looking at what its graduates went on to do. The career tracking form is how Bayan collects that: a short return from each graduate saying where they are now — in work, in further study, self-employed, or still looking.
The answers go back to the department that taught you. A subject that graduates say they never used, or a skill employers keep asking for that nobody was taught, shows up here first and nowhere else.
Who it is for
Every graduate of the university, from any college, at any point after graduation. It is worth returning more than once. The first job is rarely the last, and an update sent years later is more useful than the original answer, not less.
What the form asks
It is short, and no single field is compulsory — a partial return is far better than no return.
About you
Your name, the department and college you graduated from, the year of graduation, and a contact address that will still reach you.
About what you do now
Your current situation: working, studying, seeking work, or not currently seeking. If you are working — the sector, your role, and whether the work relates to what you studied. If you are studying — the level and the field.
About the programme, in hindsight
Which parts of it have proved useful in practice, what you were not taught and needed, and what you would tell a student starting that same programme now.
What is done with the answers
- Departments read them whenever a curriculum is reviewed.
- The careers service uses them to tell current students what the route out of a given programme actually looks like.
- Patterns across many returns — sectors, further study, regions — inform where the university puts its effort.
What is not done with them
Individual answers are treated as personal data. They are not published with your name attached, and they are not passed to employers or recruiters. Where the university would like to tell your story publicly, someone asks you first, and you are free to say no.
Submitting it
Complete the form online, or ask the alumni office for a copy. The alumni pages carry the current link and the office's address, and you can contact the office at any time to correct or update an answer you gave earlier.