Where to find employment data on international alumni before choosing where to study?
Most students pick based on rankings, brochures, and campus photos.
I want to choose where to study based on the employment of the alumni - this is the most important thing right?
I'm researching universities as an international student and struggling to find actual employment outcome data — not just a headline percentage or a curated success story.
What I want to know:
- Where do alumni actually work?
- Which employers hire graduates from this program?
- Which countries do they end up in?
- What are realistic salary ranges?
- Does it differ by degree level (Bachelor vs Master vs PhD)?
Most university websites just show a single employment rate figure or a few named alumni. When I ask admissions teams directly they give vague answers.
Has anyone found a reliable way to research this? Things I've tried:
- Searching LinkedIn for alumni from specific programs
- Looking at government graduate outcome surveys (very incomplete)
The only site I could find is called Cturtle and they have published public data on accounting graduates only as a demo that is interactive but only show partial data https://www.cturtle.co/alumnipro-demo/
- Asking on forums like this one
Also curious — did employment outcomes factor into your university choice? In hindsight, do you wish you'd researched it more before deciding?