– Exposure to role models and opportunities to apply classroom learning to real world problems were found to increase the likelihood of long-term career success for female technology graduates.
– Participation in campus life was not found to be significantly correlated with long-term career success.
– The correlations between career success and caring, motivating undergraduate professors had a medium-sized effect, indicating that these factors were more highly correlated with career success than were mentoring opportunities.
– Interactions with academic advisors were not significantly correlated with long-term success for female technology graduates.
– The correlation between career success and internship participation had a small size effect. Working on projects that took at least one semester to complete as well as participating in research with professors or faculty members were not significantly correlated with long-term success for female technology graduates.
– Both male and female technology graduates were more likely to experience long-term success if they reported an internship or job related to their major field of study during their undergraduate careers.
– Diversity was positively and significantly correlated to long-term success for female technology graduates, while living on campus was negatively correlated with long-term success.