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Percept Research, the leading provider of MBA student and alumni satisfaction assessments for business schools worldwide, is pleased to announce a significant update to the firm’s popular MBA Student Exit Survey. 

The questionnaire for the 2013-14 fielding year has been revised to reduce the overall interview length for graduating students while adjusting the managerially-actionable metrics to help guide business schools in their continuous improvement efforts. This update is reflected in each of the instruments specifically designed for full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs as well as specialized masters programs.

The MBA Student Exit questionnaire revisions include:

Percept Research, the leading provider of MBA student and alumni satisfaction assessments for business schools worldwide, is pleased to announce a significant update to the firm’s popular MBA Student Exit Survey. 

The questionnaire for the 2011-12 fielding year has been revamped to reduce the overall interview length for graduating students while increasing the number of managerially-actionable metrics to help guide business schools in their continuous improvement efforts. This major update is reflected in each of the instruments specifically designed for full-time, part-time, executive MBA programs and specialized masters programs.

The MBA Student Exit questionnaire revisions include:

In response to requests from programs that graduate students during the summer months, Percept Research agreed to extend the fielding period for the 2010-11 MBA Exit Survey from June 30 to July 31.  We implemented this change so summer-graduating programs would not have to wait for a year to receive their benchmark results.  We now recognized this one-month change in schedule also caused other shifts in critical steps in our process. 

November 1 2011 Update: Since this article was posted, we have since moved back the fielding year to July 1 - July 30 for the MBA Student Exit Survey. This email campaign message explains the reversal of the change.

Starting in 2010, Percept Research is offering a new value-add deliverable to participating programs in the firm's MBA Student Exit Study called the Alumni Engagement Interest Summary. Within the Student Exit survey, graduating students are asked if they have interest in future participation with the MBA program as alumni in a range of areas such as a guest speaker, mentorship, offering internship, assist with information sessions, etc.