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2017 Employment Survey Result

03/04/2018

2017 Employment Survey Result

The university has surveyed the employment situation after 6 and 12 months from graduation in the period of 01/2017 and 06/2017. Of the total 1349 graduates, 1118 responded to the survey, accounting for 82.9%. Of the respondents, 177 (15.8%) is by paper and 941 (84.2%) by telephone. For the 231 remaining graduates, the university tried to contact many times but could not reach them.


Table 1. Percentage of graduates who participated in the employment survey

Programme

No. of Graduates

No. of Respondents

% of Respondents

Business Administration

194

151

77.8%

Human Resource Management

28

28

100%

Marketing

45

42

93.3%

International Business

149

114

76.5%

Commerce

63

46

73.0%

E-commerce

26

25

96.2%

Finance - Banking

206

163

79.1%

Economics Statistics

7

6

85.7%

Information Technology System

25

20

80.0%

Accounting

161

151

93.8%

Auditing

108

89

82.4%

Law

46

42

91.3%

Economics Law

74

58

78.4%

Public Administration

4

4

100%

Tourism Management

72

60

83.3%

Hospitality Management

30

26

86.7%

Economics

111

93

83.8%

Total

1349

1118

82.9%

 

1. Employment status

 Employment of graduates is shown in Table 2 and Table 3. 97.5% of students are employed or continue to pursue higher level study.


Table 2. Graduates employment status 12 months after graduation.

Employment Status

No. of Graduates

%

- Employed or pursue further study

1090

97.5%

+ Employed

1060

94.8%

+ Pursue further study

30

2.7%

- Not employed yet

28

2.5%

 

 Table 3. Graduates employment status 12 months after graduation by programme.

Programme

Employment Status

Employment Rate

Employed

Pursue further study 

Not employed yet

Business Administration

142

4

5

96.7%

Human Resource Management

28

0

0

100.0%

Marketing

41

1

0

100.0%

International Business

106

7

1

99.1%

Commerce

45

0

1

97.8%

E-commerce

24

0

1

96.0%

Finance - Banking

157

3

3

98.2%

Economics Statistics

5

1

0

100.0%

Information Technology System

146

2

3

98.0%

Accounting

86

1

2

97.8%

Auditing

37

3

2

95.2%

Law

53

1

4

93.1%

Economics Law

18

1

1

95.0%

Public Administration

60

0

0

100.0%

Tourism Management

25

1

0

100.0%

Hospitality Management

4

0

0

100.0%

Economics

83

5

5

94.6%

Total

1060

30

28

97.5%

 

2. Time of employment

Table 4 and Figure 1 show that right after graduation, more than 50% of graduates have been employed and 12 months after graduation, the majority of graduates (97.5%) find employment or are pursuing advanced education.


Table 4. Time of employment

Time

No. of Graduates

%

Right after graduation

615

55.0%

6 months after graduation

1030

92.1%

12 months after graduation

1090

97.5%

 

3. Field of employment

In general, graduates work mainly in private companies. The number of graduates working in private companies varies between 68% and 94%. International Business and Hospitality Management have a significant percentage of graduates working in foreign joint ventures, at 17.9% and 28.0%, respectively.

The number of graduates working in public sector accounts for less than 15% for most programme, except for Public Administration (25%) and Finance-Banking (23.3%).

Self-employment account for 3.3%. Most of them were students in Information Technology System and Law.

 

Table 6. Field of Employment by Programme

Programme

Field of Employment

Public Sector

Private Sector

Self-employed

Foreign

Business Administration

7.75%

79.6%

4.9%

7.75%

Human Resource Management

10.7%

85.7%

0%

3.6%

Marketing

7.3%

87.9%

2.4%

2.4%

International Business

7.6%

67.9%

6.6%

17.9%

Commerce

0%

93.3%

2.2%

4.5%

E-commerce

4.2%

87.5%

0%

8.3%

Finance - Banking

22.3%

69.5%

0.6%

7.6%

Economics Statistics

0%

80.0%

20.0%

0%

Information Technology System

11.6%

80.8%

2.1%

5.5%

Accounting

9.3%

84.9%

2.3%

3.5%

Auditing

8.1%

73.0%

13.5%

5.4%

Law

13.2%

83.0%

1.9%

1.9%

Economics Law

0%

77.8%

16.7%

5.5%

Public Administration

5.0%

68.4%

3.3%

23.3%

Tourism Management

4.0%

68.0%

0%

28.0%

Hospitality Management

25.0%

75.0%

0%

0.0%

Economics

12.1%

80.7%

1.2%

6.0%

Total

10.5%

77.8%

3.3%

8.4%

 

4. The relationship between grade and employability

The positive relationship between the employment and grade students is shown in Table 7. Nearly 100% of the students who have Excellent or Good grades are employed or are pursuing further education. However, the difference in the employment rate between the grade groups is not significant.

Table 7. Employment rate by graduate grade

Grade

No. of Respondents

Unemployed

Employed or Pursuing Further Study

No. of Graduates

%

No. of Graduates

%

Excellent

25

1

4.0%

24

96.0%

Good

205

1

0.5%

204

99.5%

Average

757

20

2.6%

737

97.4%

Below Average

131

6

4.6%

125

95.4%