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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 25, 1981
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With well over half of the surveys we sent out to our alumni now
returned to us and tabulated, we are beginning to see a very positive
picture emerging in terms of how well the Ambassador College graduate
competes in the marketplace.
The answer is very well, indeed!
Income averages have been pulled down a bit of late by the recent
influx of international responses to the survey, but when we had re
ceived nearly 1,300 responses (including quite a number from abroad),
the average full-time male graduate reported an income of $22,319
which is right at or above the U.S.A. national average for college
educated males.
Full-time women graduates averaged $13,800, slightly
above national averages.
And lest anyone think that our income
averages are skewed upward by employment in the Work, we have learned
that the 65% of all graduates not employed by the Church or College are
making almost exactly 10% more than their Work-employed counterparts.
Clearly the Ambassador College graduate does know how to make a living
as well as know how to live!
Income averages for the past two decades
year by year show a gradually escalating rise out of the mid to high
teens into the low twenty-thousand-dollar mark seven or eight years
out of college on to the low thirties for those in their peak years of
productivity.
We are continuing to analyze the data as it comes in and will have some
more specific details available for you in the near future.
Mr. Richard Sedliacik recently mentioned to me that not long ago he met a
graduate of A.C. who is a non-Church member. This man, now in his 40's, was
in Los Angeles on business, had a few extra hours, and decided to visit his
alma mater which he hadn't seen for nearly fifteen years.
Mr. Sedliacik,
who happened to see him as he walked into the Hall of Administration, showed
him around the College.
During his tour of the campus, this man who is Executive Vice President of
his company told Mr. Sedliacik with emphasis, "I received ! superior
education at Ambassador compared to that of my peers in our firm."
He then
mentioned that his peers included graduates of some of the most prestigious
colleges in the U.S.
Also, only a few weeks ago, a former student of Ambassador College (a Church
member} told me that during the last two years since he was at Ambassador he
had prospered--has paid for over $30,000 worth of equipment.
He told me
that if his business continued prospering as it now is, by the end of the
year he expected to gross $150,000. Another graduate called me less than a
year ago and informed me he earned $50,000 the previous year, and received
one $10,000 bonus.
Another company was trying to hire him away from his
present employer.
And a local firm has stated that they would only hire graduates from
Ambassador College. Many in the world can see that, through Ambassador
College, students of God's Church are receiving a superior education.
But
do we as ministers, parents and prospective students realize how truly
blessed is anyone who, out of four and a half billion people, is privileged
to attend Ambassador?