Public postsecondary education: labor market outcome information.

Existing law establishes the California State University and the University of California as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Instruction is provided to students at the 23 institutions constituting the California State University and the 10 institutions constituting the University of California. This bill would require the California State University, and request the University of California, to publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to the graduates of their undergraduate programs and authorize the California State University and the University of California to publicly provide labor market outcome information relating to the graduates of their graduate programs. The labor market outcome information to be provided pursuant to the bill would include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data, and the percentage distribution of graduates, classified by industry. The bill would specify requirements for presentation of this data, including the use of easily understood labor market measures, aggregation of the data to the systemwide level and by particular areas of study, timeframes after graduation for the presentation of the data in each labor market outcome category, and adherence to pertinent state and federal privacy laws. The bill would also express the intent of the Legislature that the California State University publicly provide prematriculation labor market data for graduates at the point in time 6 years before they received their degrees. The bill would require that this information be made publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the respective segments, and updated no later than June 1 of each year.