Graduate Carreer Tracking as a Research Program

Zsuzsanna Veroszta PhDEducatio Public Services Non-profit LLC

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Researches

Country-wide sample surveys

Integration of public agency databases

Regular Institution-based surveys

Regular employer surveys (private sector)

International research programs, cooperation

Students expectations

Questions

- Is participation in higher education only an investment (human

capital theory – or other motivations)?

- Are students realize their possibilities on the labour market?

Advantages expected from graduating (Frequency of selected aspects - the two most important)7837 participants

Students expectations

Expectations by study fields(Differences from the average)

Avoid unemployment

High salary

Social prestige

Management positions

Flexible lifestyle

Employment abroad

Agriculture - + +Humanities + - + - + +Economics - + - + - -Information technology - + - - +Law and administration + + + - -Technical + + - + - -Arts - - - - + +Medical and life sciences + - + - - +Teacher training + - + -Social sciences - - +Natural sciences - - + +

Students expectations and the realityIncome expected by students and provided by graduates

Graduates: Average net income per month by study fields 3 years after graduation (Ft) (2010)Students: Expected net income per month by study fields after few years of (Ft) (2009)

Graduates on the labour market

Questions

- What does success mean?

- Is graduation an advantage? (Graduated unemployment, income)

- Overeducation/leaving the profession?

- On the labour market with Bachelor degree

Graduate success

Dimensions of success Environment Career Stability Profession

Determinants of success

Demographic background

capital capital Older age cohort, children

Social background High income in family

High income in family

Low educated parents Professional connection in family

Educational background

graduated in prescribed time

University degree, interest-based choice

of study fieldGraduated in

prescribed time

Additional training Foreign language Foreign languageForeign experience

No foreign experience Foreign languageProfessional experience

Field of study Information technologies

Law and administration, teacher training, medical and

life sciences

Finding a job

Average time of finding a job after graduation (among job seekers) by the field of study

(N=2371, months)

Income

Average net income per month among active graduates, 3 years after graduation, forint, 2010, N=2691

Average net income per month in Hungary among active population, Central Statistical Office, 2010, white collar workers/blue collar workers/total, forint

Leaving the profession

Proportion of horizontal mismatch among graduates 3 years after graduation by field of study(Based on self-declaraction, N= 4341)

Az egyes várakozások említési gyakorisága, százalékos megoszlás, N=7835

Horizontal matching among BSc graduates

To what extent is your main work activity related to your qualification?(One year after graduation, based on self-declaraction, %, N= 6421)

Bachelor

(N=1294)

Traditional

university

(N=2022)

Traditional

college

(N=1789)

One-cycle

(N=145)

Total

(N=5250)

Arithmetic mean 8884 11958 9327 10166 10254

Median7099 10231 7099 8143 7726

Income of BSc graduates

Annual gross income of graduates by type of the study program(Among active graduates, one year after graduation, Euro per year, N=5250)

From school to work

Learning/working after graduation by type of the study program(One year after graduation, N=9464)

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