Describe your graduating class and goals. Makeform creates an editable graduation survey for program feedback, next-step plans, outcome data, and follow-up permission.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Seniors completing their final term
Format
Mobile-friendly exit survey with branching
Prompt size
393 chars
Example survey structure
Mobile-friendly exit survey with branching
How would you rate your overall school experience?
What is your primary plan after graduation?
Which college, employer, or program will you join?
What should the school improve for future students?
May we contact you for a follow-up?
Suggested routing tags
Employed
Further study
Follow-up requested
Separate confirmed outcomes from current plans. A signed job offer differs from actively searching, and combining them weakens reporting.
Step 1
Identify
program, cohort, and reporting questions
Step 2
Build
ratings, pathways, logic, and consent
Step 3
Collect
share before graduation and follow up later
Step 4
Review
segment feedback and outcome records
Useful graduate data
Connect each question to program improvement, support, or outcome reporting. Graduates get a shorter survey and staff get usable answers.
Conditional logic shows employment, education, or support questions only when relevant.
Consistent scales for advising, teaching, belonging, and readiness support cohort comparisons.
Focused open questions reveal which experiences mattered and what should change.
Survey moments
Keep core fields consistent, then adjust wording and choices for each collection window.
Capture experience ratings, plans, support needs, and follow-up permission.
Focus on curriculum, practical experience, readiness, advising, and recommendations.
Update employment or study status and distinguish outcomes from searches.
Refresh contact preferences and route alumni support requests.
Build your survey
Define the decisions, generate the structure, and test every pathway before sharing.
Name the programs, graduation term, timing, and decisions the responses support.
Use local program names, define time frames, and keep scales consistent.
Preview employed, further-study, seeking, and undecided routes before publishing.
Use student channels and contact only graduates who grant permission.
Collection design
Separate immediate experience feedback from later outcomes when timing changes what graduates can answer.
Field guide
These six sections create useful records without asking every possible question. Adapt them to your data practices.
Cohort details
Collect only cohort fields needed for analysis. Explain optional identity questions and handle small groups carefully.
Student experience
Use consistent scales for teaching, advising, resources, belonging, and career preparation. Ask about specific services.
Readiness
Rate preparedness across stated competencies, then ask which experiences strengthened or limited readiness.
Next steps
Use clear status choices and a time reference. Show detail fields only when relevant.
Open feedback
Use a few neutral text prompts and remind respondents not to name other students.
Follow-up
Separate survey participation, alumni updates, and individual follow-up. Collect contact details only when needed.
Related tools
Pair graduation feedback with course, student, exit, and alumni surveys.
Create a questionnaire tailored to graduate-level study, services, and next steps.
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Open toolEvaluate online course design, instruction, access, and learning experience.
Open toolBuild a concise exit survey for students, participants, or staff leaving a program.
Open toolReconnect with alumni to update outcomes, interests, and contact preferences.
Open toolAssess career goals, readiness, support needs, and development priorities.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for schools and universities planning graduate feedback and outcome collection.
A graduation survey asks students completing a program about their experience, readiness, plans, outcomes, support needs, and follow-up preferences. Choose questions based on survey timing and how staff will use each answer.
Include program and term, ratings for teaching and services, competency readiness, next-step status, focused feedback prompts, conditional employment or study details, and follow-up permission. Omit details with no reporting or support purpose.
Collect experience and plans near program completion. Send a shorter follow-up later when confirmed employment or education outcomes matter. State the time period so cohort results remain interpretable.
Yes. Conditional logic can show role fields to employed graduates, credential fields to continuing students, and support options to graduates who are seeking or undecided.
It depends on the purpose. Anonymous surveys can support candid feedback; identified responses enable follow-up and record matching. Explain the approach, mark optional fields, and request separate contact permission.
Keep it focused, use conditional sections, test it on a phone, and explain why questions matter. Send appropriate reminders without repeatedly contacting graduates who submitted.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free form creation and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect graduation survey responses without a usage cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Separate experience feedback from outcomes. Compare consistent scales by program and cohort, handle small groups carefully, code comments into themes, retain context, and document question changes.
Turn the final student check-in into useful feedback.
