This page contains information about St. Olaf graduates and alumni including graduation rates, class profiles, numbers of completed majors and concentrations, and the results of surveys of recent graduates.
Retention and Graduation Rates
These dashboards show the most recent 10 years of first-year, second-year, and third-year retention rates and 4-year and 6-year graduation rates for full-time students who entered St. Olaf seeking a degree for the first time over the past 10 years. These results can be disaggregated by gender, race/ethnicity/citizenship, low-income/first-generation, and federal aid category. Below the dashboards button is a link to historical retention and graduation rates going back to 1991.
Preliminary Profile of Graduating Class
(numbers of projected graduates, top majors, average GPA etc.)
Majors, Concentrations, and Degrees Awarded
These dashboards show the demographic profile (gender, race/ethnicity/citizenship) and counts for each major and concentration awarded over the most recent 10 years, using IPEDS completion dates of July 1-June 30 each year. They also show the total number of degrees awarded and overall demographic profile of graduates from that same time period (including number of single v. multiple majors). The link below the dashboards button will take you to information about the number of PhDs earned by alumni.
Summary of graduates’ first destination
Percent engaged in graduate school, service work, or employment during the first year after graduation.
View Summary Table (most recent 3 years)
View Interactive Dashboards (maintained by Piper Center)
HEDS Alumni Survey (alumni 4-5 years and 9-10 years post-graduation): A Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium survey that gathers information from alumni about their educational, co-curricular, volunteer, and professional experiences during and after their undergraduate studies, and the contributions of these experiences to their knowledge and proficiencies.
- 2024 HEDS Alumni Survey Reports
- 2024 HEDS Alumni Survey – Employment Outcomes: This page compares the 5-year and 10-year alumni cohort responses about the characteristics of their current job (e.g., whether it relates to their undergraduate major, is work they find meaningful, has satisfactory pay and benefits, allows them to continue to learn, etc.)
- 2024 HEDS Alumni Survey – Post-graduate Life: This page compares the 5-year and 10-year alumni cohort responses about how well St. Olaf prepared them for various aspects of life after college (e.g., their current career, continued learning, civic engagement, etc.)
- For information about all large-scale surveys administered to alumni in recent years, please visit our survey database.