This page can help you with a variety of different situations that may arise while generating and reviewing your MBA CSEA report, such as finding which students are included in the report or how to mark a student as having "No Recent Information Available." This guide is your first step in understanding how the report works, alongside troubleshooting steps to help you get past roadblocks along the way.
Questions
- Which students are included in the MBA CSEA report?
- How can I find an MBA student that is unexpectedly missing from (or added to) the 12Twenty prepared MBA CSEA Report?
- Why are some students marked as "Unreported?"
- How can I identify students marked as having "Multiple Reported Outcomes?"
- How can I mark a student as having “No Recent Information Available”?
- What to do with Unknown and $0 Salaries?
- How to report using Customized Functions and Industries?
- How do I "freeze" my data so changes cannot be made?
- Exported MBA CSEA report defaulted to the current graduation year, why?
Which students are included in the MBA CSEA report?
All students of a school’s Full-Time MBA program graduating between July 1 and June 30 of consecutive years. Additionally, MBA CSEA guidelines determine the timeframe in which Outcomes can be collected and tabulated for the FT MBA CSEA report.
- Employment offers accepted by 3 months after the student’s graduation date.
- Outcomes reported by 4 months after the student’s graduation date.
- Outcomes not specifically excluded from reporting.
The inclusion of unapproved outcomes, rumor jobs, and exchange students depends on your site settings.
How can I find an MBA student that is unexpectedly missing from (or added to) the 12Twenty prepared MBA CSEA Report?
- Graduation Date
- Remember the date range for students to be included is July 1 through June 30 of the following year. Be sure the graduation date associated with a student’s graduation term falls within that date range.
- Students with a Summer Graduation Term are often a cause for confusion. If they have a graduation date after July 1, they will be the first students on the report for the following year. For example, a student graduating in May 2017 would be included in the 2017 MBA CSEA report, but a student graduating in August 2017 would be included in the 2018 report.
- "Included in Reporting"
- Ensure the students' outcomes are approved and marked as included in reporting.
- Ensure the students' outcomes are approved and marked as included in reporting.
- Account Settings
- Make sure the student’s profile has the correct account settings
- Program
- Graduation Year
- Graduation Term
- Exchange Student
- Active = Yes)
- Make sure the student’s profile has the correct account settings
12twenty Pro Tip: To quickly determine which students are represented within a table, use the Export Raw Data functionality to exactly which students are included in the table.
Why are some students marked as "Unreported?"
There are two reasons a student could appear as having no reported outcomes on your 12Twenty platform:
- The student has never logged in and reported an outcome
- The student has logged in and chosen not to report anything
- A Career Center User has not submitted an outcome for the student
- When Career Center Users add outcomes for students, please ensure to use the Outcome Note feature to include information about how you acquired the outcome as well as supporting documentation.
Students who have not reported an outcome can be calculated differently. To configure this please follow the steps outlined below:
- Navigate through Site Management and Site Settings
- Select Reporting
- Make a selection for Unreported Students
- Save
How can I identify students marked as having "Multiple Reported Outcomes?"
Occasionally you will see students listed as having "Multiple Reported Outcomes.” This means the student has reported two or more outcomes that are in conflict with one another. Examples:
- A student reported two accepted offers
- A student reporting they are starting their own business (which makes them a non-seeker) but also submits an outcome stating that they are seeking employment.
To resolve this conflict, please follow the steps outlined below to isolate students with Multiple Reported Outcomes:
- Navigating to the Student & Alumni Directory
- Add the filter for FTMBA CSEA Reporting Category - Post Grad with a selection of "Multiple Reported Outcomes"
- Open each student profile and resolve the conflicts to ensure each student only has one Accepted and Included in Reporting outcome
How can I mark a student as having “No Recent Information Available”?
Students for whom you do not have usable outcome information can be marked as “No Recent Information Available” by a Career Center User. Please refer to the MBA CSEA guidelines as to what constitutes a student meeting the "No Recent Information Available" criteria.
To classify a student as “No Information Available":
- Navigate to the Student’s Profile
- From the Jobs & Job Offers tab select Admin: Unreported for the intended job phase.
You will be prompted to enter a “Student Report Date.” We suggest entering the date when the student first met the criteria for this category (this would be within the final month of the data collection period, per the MBA CSEA Standards, after they have not responded to the final outreach attempt).
What to do with Unknown and $0 Salaries?
Student outcome salaries can be reported as unknown or $0 in the following ways:
- Unknown Salary: a Career Center Cser completes an outcome survey on behalf of the student and does not know salary information, they can leave the salary field blank.
- $0 Salary - indicates a student is not receiving a salary. 12twenty will not allow students to submit surveys with the salary field blank, but they can enter $0 as their salary.
Please be advised, MBA CSEA standards require $0 salaries to be calculated in all compensation calculations. In accordance with this, 12Twenty generated reports and research tools will include $0 salaries in aggregate totals. Unreported, or blank, salaries will be excluded from 12Twenty salary calculations. See a visualization of these two concepts below:
How to report using Customized Functions and Industries?
The MBA CSEA provides a standardized list of industries and functions to be included in your official MBA CSEA report; however, 12twenty partners have the option to customize these lists to meet their needs and better reflect their student population. 12Twenty provides three options regarding industries and functions when compiling MBA CSEA reports:
- [School] Industries/Functions
- Using your Consolidated Industry and Consolidated Job Function picklists
- [School] Detailed Industries/Functions
- Using your Detailed Industry and Detailed Job Function picklists
- MBA CSEA Industries/Functions
How do I "freeze" my data so changes cannot be made?
The 12Twenty platform only includes data in the MBA CSEA report that is reported before the cutoff date. Outcomes with a Reported Date after the cutoff are excluded. Therefore, going back to the report at a later date will only include data reported within the cutoff date.
Alternatively, you may close the survey to prevent students and/or Career Center Users from modifying the data. In general, we recommend downloading a copy of your MBA CSEA report on the cutoff date to assure you have a local copy of the report. To close the survey for students and/or Career Center Users, please follow the steps outlined below:
- Navigate through Site Management and Site Settings
- Select Outcome Survey from the left-hand side
- Select a Graduation Class to configure each Outcome Phase
Exported MBA CSEA report defaulted to the current graduation year, why?
The tables of the MBA CSA report will always default to the current graduation year. When you select Generate and Export Complete Report from the Standard Reports module, you are creating an excel file for the full MBA CSEA report, which does automatically adjust to the previous graduation year.
You can change the filters in the full export and individual tables to match your data specifications. To do so, select the Graaduation Year, programsn and more before exporting or loading the table. The filters will not be saved for the next time you visit the table. Filters must be applied each time the module and tables are accessed.
Disclaimer: While these articles are intended to assist 12Twenty customers in compiling their official MBA CSEA reports, they should not be considered formal guidance on interpreting MBA CSEA standards, or instructions on how to comply with them. For that, we always recommend reviewing the latest version of the MBA CSEA standards, which can be found at http://www.mbacsea.org/standards, or contacting the MBA CSEA directly with any questions.