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This bill requires post-secondary educational institutions to collect and report certain employment data for recent graduates. Under the bill, four-year public and independent institutions of higher education will conduct an annual employment survey of the students who graduated in the prior academic year. The institutions will then post on their websites the student employment data collected, which will include: the overall number and percentage of students who are employed in a field related to their major or course of study one year following graduation; the overall number and percentage of students who are employed in any field one year following graduation; the salary earned by students one year following graduation; and the overall number and percentage of students who enroll in a graduate degree program within one year following graduation from the institution. The institutions will maintain the data for each graduating class on their websites for a period of four academic years. The bill also requires private vocational schools to survey students in order to collect and report employment data for students who graduated from or completed a program of the school in the prior year. The information will be posted on the school's website and maintained for a period of four years following its compilation. Under the "New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act," P.L.2009, c.197, four-year public institutions of higher education are currently required to provide on their websites information on the cost of attendance, the graduation rates of admitted students, and the faculty of the institution. This bill amends that law to require that independent institutions of higher education also provide this information on their websites.

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Shirley Turner (D)*, 

Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 02/08/2018)