On Monday 17th Setember, Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (ACSUG) had presented the results for SUG overall of “Labor market insertion of Galician University System graduates 2013-2014 (EIL1314)”. This presentation was made by General Secretary of Universities, D. José Alberto Díez de Castro, president of the ACSUG board of Directors, D.ª María Patrocinio Morrondo Pelayo and ACSUG executive director, D. José Eduardo López Pereira.
This summary compiles the results obtained from the twelve survey given to graduates of the Galician University System, performed in July 2017. The study population consists of SUG graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year (diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, engineering and architecture degrees, and technical engineering and architecture degrees), and degrees.
Sample represents 61.07% of the total population of graduates.
| University | Population | Sample |
| Universidade da Coruña | 2.512 | 1.536 |
| Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 3.396 | 1.918 |
| Universidade de Vigo | 2.495 | 1.678 |
| SUG | 8.403 | 5.132 |
For each qualification and campus (sub-population) a random sample was selected, determining the sample size by estimation of the proportion (with maximum variance) and setting a maximum permissible error rate of 10%, with a confidence level of 95%.
The results obtained in this study provide information of the aspects related to the transition of higher education to the labor market: university training, internships and jobs during the degree earned, mobility, knowledge of languages, access to employment, employment search routes, current situation, time spent finding work, type of contract and assessment of competencies required in employment.
The main conclusions from these results are:
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ACADEMIC DATA |
| For 75.02% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year, the degree obtained had been their first choice. |
| 58.40% of graduates benefited from scholarships during their studies. Of them, more than half, maintained this for three or more academic years. In 98.44% of cases the scholarship came from a Spanish public institution. |
| 50.42% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year had at the time of the survey completed another university degree, apart from the degree for which they were surveyed. |
| A total of 30.64% of the graduates completed internships at companies/institutions during their studies that were not included in their curriculum. |
| Among those surveyed, 40.42% worked while completing their studies, although in just 31.40% of the cases it was a full-time job. Of the graduates who worked during their studies, 59.00% of them indicated that the work was unrelated to their degree. |
| 19.17% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year participated in a mobility program during their time at the university, mainly in the Erasmus program, with 75.42%. In 83.21% of cases the destination was a university elsewhere in the European Union. |
| 95.74% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year knew a language other than the oficial languages of the SUG (Galician and Spanish). Of them, 48.34% reported knowing only one additional language. |
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EMPLOYMENT SEARCH |
| 73.92% of graduates sought employment related to their degree after completion of their studies. Of them, 72.29% found it. |
| The average time taken for graduates to find their first job after their degree was 10.42 months. |
| Job search routes most commonly used by graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year were the internet, with a 3.99, self-promotion, with 3.87, and through personal contacts, family or friends, with 3.03. More than half of the graduates, 55.42%, found their first employment by one of these three methods. |
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CURRENT SITUATION |
| 17.65% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year were continuing with their studies at the time of the survey. |
| 25.18% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year were preparing for competitive examinations at the time of the survey. |
| 79.59% of graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year were working at the time of the survey. |
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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT (AFTER DEGREE) |
| The majority of the graduates, 80.11%, were working in Galicia. 17.01% were working in another autonomous community and only 2.88% worked outside of Spain. |
| Of the graduates who were working at the time of the survey, 90.31% were working as employees. |
| The average salary of a graduate during the 2013-2014 academic year was €1,231.02 per month. |
| 79.38% of graduates who worked were carrying out university-level functions in their work. Of them, 84.45% were carrying out functions specific to their degree. |
| The five skills most valued by graduates during the 2013-2014 academic year were learning capacity, with 4.55, motivation, with 4.52, problem solving skills, with 4.49, oral/written communication skills, with 4.39, and adaptability, with 4.40. |
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SATISFACTION WITH THE ACADEMIC ROUTE |
| 92.43% of graduates would pursue university studies again. Of them, 80.76% would choose the same degree, of which 88.49% would repeat their studies at the same university. This means that 66.05% of total graduates from the SUG during the 2013-2014 academic year would repeat exactly the same academic route, i.e., they would pursue the same degree again at the same university. |
