Goal Six

Goal 6: 10% of students regularly enter formal post-graduate service (JVC, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, etc.). (Target: 2020)

Progress:

The 2019 First Destination Survey, released in March 2020, indicated that the success rate for the undergraduate class of 2019 was 94.3% (5.7% of students were still seeking employment or access to continuing education). 4.6% of these graduates were in the volunteer service category and 1.4% were in the military service category. Over the past 5 years, an average of 4.8% of graduates have entered post-graduate service.

Organization AY 15-16 AY 16-17 AY 17-18 AY 18-19 AY 19-20
Jesuit Volunteer Corps 22 7 12 8 15
AmeriCorps 10 13 8 10 10
Teach for America 5 6 9 13 5
Peace Corps 5 4 7 3 5
Alumni Service Corps 1 2
Lutheran Volunteer Corps 1 1 1
Pacific Alliance for
Catholic Education (PACE)		 2 2 1 1
St. Margaret's Women's
Shelter
Habitat for Humanity
Heart's Home
Other** 9 13 11 15

*This data was not collected using NACE Standards

**Adventures of the Valparaiso, Amigos de Jesus, City Year, Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), College Success Foundation, Crossroads Medical & Dental Clinic
Episcopal Service Corps, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 
First Things Foundation, FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students), Gonzaga Preparatory School, Good Shepherd Volunteers, Greenheart International, 
Halifax Humane Society, Ignatian Service Corps, Jesuit Worldwide Learning, L’Arche, Creighton University’s Magis Catholic Teacher Corps, Library For All, 
Mennonite Central Committee, Mercy Volunteer Corps, Ritzville Volunteer Ambulance Association, Rostro de Cristo, Saint Ignatius, The Campus Kitchens Project, University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE Teaching Fellows), Volunteers of America, West Valley School District 363, World Relief, 
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)