GRADUATE TRACER STUDY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY IRIGA CITY
Marilou D. Tino
Asso. Professor, USANT Graduate School
Abstract
The graduate tracer study is a survey designed to
track the employment or the current positions or designation
of the graduates of the USANT Graduate School department.
To acquire the needed data, the graduate tracer tool
developed by CHED as the basis in designing the tracer
instrument in the survey conducted by the University
Research Center (URC). Some variables were changed
because it is no longer necessary and not appropriate for
postgraduate students.
The subjects of the study are the USANT graduates of
2011-2019 of the Graduate School Department whose names
were drawn from the master list of graduates provided by
the Registrar’s office.
Findings of the study revealed that the USANT
graduates of SY 2010-2011 to 2018-2019 are employed as
regular in their present or current job either as professionals
or as clerks. Most of the respondents work in academic
institutions and are connected to the Department of
Education, some are working in either Private Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs) or State Universities and
Colleges (SUCs), and some are bank employees, hospital
nurses, and employed in the Philippine National Police. A
few respondents work abroad but were also former teachers
who opted to leave their teaching careers and seek
employment abroad. Many of the graduates are still having
the same job they had as their first employment or first job
only that some were already reassigned to other places
within Bicol. It was further revealed that their main purpose
of pursuing graduate studies is purely for professional
development.
Conclusion
Based on the findings of the study, it is therefore
concluded that most of the alumni of the graduate school of
USANT are married moms and DepEd employees. And that
they wanted to be academically advanced for promotion and
for recognition. Although they revealed that they stayed in
graduate school for professional development but attributed
it to it is the promotion and at the same time recognition.
It is further concluded that 21st-century learners' and
teachers' skills are more developed in graduate school.