PathwayU is a self-guided online assessment to help students explore purpose and where it intersects with education, career, and employment. PathwayU assesses interests, personality, values, and workplace preferences in four different assessments. This information helps students learn about their preferred environments, communication with others, and other important factors when considering various career paths. The assessments take 20-25 minutes to complete in total, which make it easy for students to complete for personal career exploration or as a part of classroom assignments.
Over 9,000 Boise State students, faculty, and staff have completed the PathwayU assessments since 2020. A large portion of these assessments have been completed by students as a part of a classroom assignment and we hope that this page helps incorporate PathwayU into your course
If you are considering incorporating PathwayU into your course, we suggest taking the assessment!
Course Resources
Career Services offers a variety of adaptable and customizable resources to help you easily integrate PathwayU into your course and help students deepen their understanding of their PathwayU results:
Key PathwayU Features
Boise State Academic Program Mapping
For students who are undeclared or still exploring their major, PathwayU shows students which academic programs at Boise State align with their career matches. This feature also allows students to see career options that correspond to their academic program.
Subject Area Career Matches and Occupational Information
PathwayU examines assessment results and calculates career fit to nearly 1,000 career paths. All career path recommendations come with information pulled from O*Net, an up-to-date job analysis tool from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Military Crosswalk
For veteran students, the military crosswalk feature shows which careers match their previous experience in the military. Veterans can search by their military code and branch.
Student Testimonials
“The Pathway U tool by Boise State University was a very beneficial and academically useful tool. I think it will be useful for students who are undeclared and still looking for majors that may interest them. After taking all of the assessments, I found that they were very accurate to who I am as a person.”
“This resource has been a significant help in discovering new pathways for my future career. Not only did it introduce me to careers that match up with my personality and interests, but it gives me correlating majors that Boise State provides to get closer to achieving greatness in that career path.”
“The tool is actually VERY good in helping you find careers that are suited for you. I mean come on, there’s filters, multiple layers of depth to the questions, and multiple choices are displayed, each choice having tons of information about it, even a video in some cases. This is absolutely amazing, I wish we had this when I was in high school a few years ago, it would have been really helpful.”