Confederation College continues to achieve high scores in the Ontario Key Performance Indicators Report.
The Thunder Bay college scored the top spot out of the 24 Ontario colleges in the employer satisfaction category with a rate of 97.5 per cent. That number refers to the number of employers who are satisfied with the level of education the graduates receive at Confederation.
The KPI report helps colleges measure success and determine ways to improve with its annual report.
The school took the No. 2 spot in graduate satisfaction and were No. 1 for northern colleges in the graduation employment rate.
College president Jim Madder said he’s most pleased with the cluster for top spots in those three categories.
“I think it says our students are doing great work. Our faculty and staff are doing great work and boy, it’s great to have that relationship with employers as well,” he said.
He attributes the high marks to paying attention to what students needs and what and being well connected to employment opportunities.
“Students are learning the skills that will make them successful out there, so it’s really that close relationship with the community,” Madder said.
One area of improvement for Confederation College is their graduation rates. Madders said he believes that reflects the employment situation in Thunder Bay.
“It’s jobs, jobs, jobs out there. People are saying ‘I’ll come back to college in the future but right now I can’t turn this good job down,’” he said.
Madder said they contact people who don’t return to finish their program to ask why.
“We’re going to call them, see what else we can do,” he said.
