Demonstrate the Value of a Degree with Verified Graduate Outcomes

Graduate Outcomes gives higher education institutions — including colleges and universities — a reliable view into alumni financial health after graduation. By leveraging income, credit, debt, and homeownership data from Equifax, schools can demonstrate ROI to prospective students, track program effectiveness, strengthen accreditation, and power alumni fundraising efforts.

Unlike self-reported surveys, Graduate Outcomes provides comprehensive, anonymized data that is current and actionable for institutional leaders and researchers.

Demonstrate ROI
Show the measurable value of degrees with verified financial outcomes.
Support Accreditation & Compliance
Provide regulators and accreditors with reliable data.
Improve Recruitment 
Use trusted outcome metrics to help attract and enroll more students.
Strengthen Fundraising
Identify alumni with the economic capacity to support giving campaigns.
Monitor Effectiveness
Compare outcomes across programs, majors, or student populations.
Support Academic Research
Supply financial and economic data for advanced studies.
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Data on 245M+ consumers. Drive growth with industry-leading analytics and Equifax Cloud™ technology.

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One large university identified its top 10% alumni to aid in fundraising, intern placement, and scholarship programs.

Turning Insights into Action

Graduate Outcomes helps higher education leaders and researchers answer critical questions with actionable data. 

Recruitment & Marketing

Showcase income outcomes by program to attract prospective students.

Support Academic Research

Utilize unique data on credit, income, and wealth to enable insights into research projects and challenges.

Equifax Ignite® for Graduate Outcomes

Higher education institutions can use this cloud-based, analytical platform to better support admissions, marketing, alumni relations, program effectiveness, career services, institutional research, and funding initiatives.

How Graduate Outcomes Works

Our solution leverages exclusive data assets from Equifax to deliver comprehensive, anonymized insights into alumni success. Institutions can access outcomes through:
Graduate Outcome Metrics
Aggregated reports including income, industry, residence, and credit trends.
Equifax Ignite® for Graduate Outcomes
A cloud-based platform with dashboards, segmentation, and raw data access.
Flexible Delivery
Choose secure batch files, cloud dashboards, or Snowflake® Data Cloud access.

Why Graduate Outcomes Matters

As higher education faces rising costs and increased demand for accountability, institutions need trusted data to demonstrate value. Graduate Outcomes replaces unreliable surveys with financial insights — empowering schools to prove ROI, improve equity, strengthen alumni engagement, and make confident, data-driven decisions.

Frequently Asked Questions

A data solution suite providing anonymized insights into alumni income, credit, and financial health to evaluate graduate success more effectively than self-reported surveys.

Surveys often have low response rates (<30%) and accuracy issues. Graduate Outcomes uses payroll and credit data — comprehensive and continuously updated.

Equifax Ignite for Graduate Outcomes Metrics: Aggregate reports for benchmarking and program evaluation.


Equifax Ignite for Graduate Outcomes: A cloud-based platform for dashboards, segmentation, and raw data.

Institutional research, admissions and marketing, alumni relations, development offices, career services, and academic researchers.

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Case Study

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See how a community college used data-driven insights to better understand graduate wage outcomes, meet state compliance, and develop a strategic plan for success.
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