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Please submit your questions, feedback, or requests for additional data via InstitutionalResearch@scu.edu

What is the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Graduating Senior Survey?

The ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Graduating Senior Survey is a local longitudinal survey designed to assess graduating seniors’ experiences at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, including, but not limited to, involvement in co-curricular activities, mental health, compassion, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, ethical decision-making, vocation, and Jesuit values. Initiated in spring 2023, this survey replaces the CSS-HERI College Senior Survey.

Who is responsible for administering the Senior Survey?

The Office of Institutional Research (IR) is responsible for administering the Senior Survey at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½.

Who is surveyed?

For the 2025-2026 academic year, the survey was sent to all undergraduate Fall and Winter term degree completers, and those who petitioned to graduate in the Spring and Summer term.

When is the Senior Survey administered?

The Senior Survey is administered during the Spring quarter of every academic year. The most recent data collection period was mid-May 2026 to mid-June 2026. The next administration is planned for Fall 2026.

The survey is administered through Qualtrics.

Are Senior Survey responses confidential?

Yes. IR links responses for longitudinal tracking and student demographic breakouts. Individual responses are kept confidential and reported only in aggregate. This means your individual answers will not be shared with anyone outside the Office of Institutional Research, and data are reported only as institutional or group-level statistics.

Completions Academic Year

• Refers to class year (e.g., "2024–2025" refers to the "Class of 2025")
• Academic Year: September 1–August 31 (e.g., August 2024 graduates are part of the Class of 2024)

Years

• Filter by year, or select multiple years, to see changes over time and identify trends

Cohort

• For seniors, filter by first-time students vs. transfer students.
• Cohort indicates whether a student entered ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ as a first-time student or transferred in

Sex (Demographic Breakout)

• Break down engagement data by sex (female, male)

First Generation

• Filter by first-generation student status to understand engagement patterns for students whose parents did not earn a four-year college degree

Program of Study (Major)

• Break down data by the students’ major

Select different Themes and Constructs to filter question items and explore different facets of student experience.

Themes

The visualization offers a dropdown for Themes that allows you to focus on different aspects of student experience:

• Executive Summary: A high-level overview of key engagement metrics.
• Senior Survey-specific Themes: Focused explorations of particular engagement dimensions, such as Health and Wellness, Meaning and Purpose, Sustainability, and others.

Constructs

Constructs are unobserved qualities like mental health or conscientiousness which are measured by asking a series of relevant questions and generating an overall score.

Constructs on the Senior Survey that are derived from psychometrically validated instruments include:

• Grit items: derived from Grit Scale
• Anxiety, Depression, Wellness items: derived from PROMIS-29+2.
• Compassion items: derived from ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Brief Compassion Scale
• Ethics items: derived from ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Ethics Scale
• Vocation items: derived from ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Vocation Scale

Butler/Purpose items: derived from SWISS Construct of Meaning