THE RMU PROOF OF VALUE
Parents and students need to know
they are reaping a return on their investment
in a college education. RMU is proud of its traditional
measures of success, including strong retention
and graduation rates, healthy starting salaries
and consistent placement rates at 92% or more.
“GREAT JOBS, GREAT LIVES”
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Over the past 30 years, the
Gallup Organization has identified
ways to measure employee engagement
and workplace performance.
Corporations across America now use
WORKPLACE ENGAGEMENT
as a way to identify
and reward top performers, and
these engaged employees are more
involved, enthusiastic and loyal.
But we want to find more meaningful,
lasting measures of success. We want to guarantee
our students, not only that all–important first job,
but a career and lifetime of success.
THE RMU ADVANTAGE
A great career is part of the story,
but Gallup also measures
WELL–BEING—how a person feels about
and experiences life. When people feel
a sense of purpose and have social,
community, physical and financial
well–being, they enjoy richer,
more productive and rewarding lives,
personally and professionally.
For 90 years—and for students of all kinds—RMU
emphasizes both the PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL
aspects of your educational experience.
We’ve adopted the GPI as a more meaningful
measure of how well we are changing lives and
delivering lifelong value to our students and alumni.
MORE RMU ALUMNI DO BETTER
RMU graduates are outperforming college graduates nationally, as well as those from
our set of overlap schools (the top 20 schools that RMU applicants are also considering).
According to the RMU Gallup Alumni Survey, RMU alums are more likely to be employed full–time,
to be engaged at work and to be thriving in all areas of well–being.
RMU ALUMNI
ARE MORE ENGAGED AT WORK
MORE RMU ALUMNI
ARE EMPLOYED FULL–TIME
77%
RMU
44%
39%
OVERLAP
SCHOOLS
RMU
38%
63%
NATIONALLY
NATIONALLY
Equal proportions of male and female
RMU graduates since 1970 are
employed full–time. Nationally, however,
71% of male college graduates are employed
full–time vs. only 56% of women.
Among all American workers,
only 30% are engaged in their jobs.
But 44% of RMU alumni are engaged at work,
higher than the national average
or our overlap schools.
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RMU is performing well in these
important areas, called
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS
GALLUP’S “BIG SIX”
Gallup has identified the particular educational experiences
that predict whether or not people will be
engaged at work and thriving in their personal lives.
Universities that deliver these key experiences—
a combination of supportive relationships with professors and
mentors plus experiential learning outside the classroom—
are more likely to produce graduates
with great careers and great lives.
SUPPORT
My professors at RMU cared
about me as a person.
I had at least one professor
at RMU who made me
excited about learning.
While attending RMU, I had a
mentor who encouraged me to
pursue my goals and dreams.
RMU IS DOING EVEN BETTER
FOR OUR STUDENTS TODAY
With the addition of the
Student Engagement Transcript (SET),
and the university’s ongoing commitment to
enhancing mentorship initiatives and faculty–student
interactions, we are seeing clear evidence that
today’s students are getting even more of these powerful
experiences that will lead to a lifetime of rewards.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
While at RMU, I worked on a
project that took a semester
or longer to complete.
While attending RMU, I had an
internship or job that allowed me
to apply what I was learning
in the classroom.
I was extremely active in
extracurricular activities and
organizations while at RMU.
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