The outcomes of research on students’ satisfaction with the study programs and preparedness for the labor market – students who were enrolled for the study programs in 2010 – pilot project on employment tracking
The Agency for Science and Higher Education, in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Split, conducted a trial (pilot) research on employment of graduate students on national level in 2014.
The survey covered students who were enrolled for the study programs in 2010 when the system for central application for undergraduate, professional, or integrated study programs at higher education institutions in the Republic of Croatia was introduced.
The goal was to explore the extent of Croatian students’ satisfaction with the study programs and their possibilities of employment, but also to test the methodology and the Agency’s capacity for similar types of research in the future.
The outcomes of this research have been published in the study The outcomes of research on students’ satisfaction with the study programs and preparedness for the labor market.
Summary:
- 4234 participants had access to the online questionnaire
- The percentage of filled in questionnaires (response rate) is 10,2%
- 12,3 % participants were continuously (over 6 months) working on a job that they had started while still studying
- 22,3 % participants started working after finishing their studies
- 19 % participants are employed
- 8,5 % of the total number work within the profession.