Valencia (EFE).- The degrees related to Computer Science, Engineering and Health have higher employment rates in Spain and a higher percentage of employed persons with a salary greater than or equal to 1,500 euros, of highly qualified occupations and of people working in tasks related to the studies they have completed.
The Informática group offers the best job placement indicators, with an employment rate of 96.3%, a percentage of employees with a salary greater than or equal to 1,500 euros that is close to 80%; 92.8% of highly qualified occupations and 89% of graduates working in activities related to their studies.
In second place are graduates in Engineering, industry and construction and, in third place, those in Health and social services, according to the report “Analysis of the labor market insertion of university graduates” from the U-Ranking project of the BBVA Foundation. and the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE).
The report, which analyzes the situation in 2019 of graduates five years earlier, points out that the major determinants of employment and its quality are, fundamentally, the grade chosen by the student and the autonomous community in which they live or to which commutes to work.
Choosing a degree with high employability can increase the probability of being employed by up to 25 percentage points compared to one with low employability; It can also increase the probability of having a net monthly salary of more than 1,500 euros by 82 points, and by 81 points that of having a job adjusted to the level of studies and almost doubling (91.8 points) the probability of having a job related to the area of study studied.
According to the ranking, the Agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and veterinary group is positioned in fourth place, followed by Education, Business, administration and law, Sciences, Social Sciences, journalism and documentation, Services and, lastly, Arts and Humanities.
MEDICINE LEADS THE LIST BY FIELDS
The report breaks down the 10 groups of studies into 101 fields of study. Due to its insertion results, the list by fields is headed by Medicine, with an employment rate of 95%, 91.8% of employed people who earn 1,500 or more euros per month, and practically 100% of graduates working in occupations. highly qualified and in activities directly related to their studies.
Eight engineering, together with Computer Science, occupy the next 9 steps. In descending order they are Aeronautical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Industrial Technology Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Software Development and applications and Multimedia Engineering, Energy Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering.
With the least favorable results in labor insertion is Archeology, with a 77% employment rate, only 10% of employed with salaries equal to or greater than 1,500 euros, 62% of highly qualified occupations and 54% of graduates working in your area of studies or similar.
Other fields of study with low levels of employability are Art History, Conservation and Restoration, Fine Arts, and Public Management and Administration.
THE POLYTECHNICAL UNIT OF MADRID OCCUPIES THE FIRST PLACE
The Polytechnic University of Madrid ranks first with a Social Security affiliation rate of 76% of its graduates, a salary with an average contribution base of 32,242 euros per year and 74.5% of employees adjusted to their level of employment. studies.
Two other polytechnic universities, Cartagena and Catalonia, together with the Santa Teresa de Jesús de Ávila Catholic University and the Nebrija University, complete the list up to fifth place.
The position in terms of insertion of each university is highly conditioned by the specialization of its studies, that is, the degrees offered by each institution. The polytechnics, with a high weight of degrees with very good insertion results, such as computer science or engineering, stand out in the top positions.
Also in the upper part are many private and young universities, which have recently structured their offer of degrees and have opted for a composition of titles with good insertion results.
On the contrary, the public universities that come from the historical general studies (UCM, UB, UV, UGR, US, USAL), due to their origin, tend to address all fields of specialization and maintain a part of their offer in fields of knowledge. with limited employability.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN SPAIN AND THE EU27
University graduates in Spain face greater insertion problems than those in the EU-27 countries, with 7 and 8 percentage points below the average.
In eleven European countries, youth employment rates exceed 90%, while in Spain it does not reach 77% in 2021, below the average (84.9%) and only ahead of Italy and Greece.
Spanish university students are, in any case, in a more favorable relative position compared to the population as a whole, a distance that is maintained at any stage of the economic cycle and is reinforced during crises.
In 2022, with an unemployment rate in Spain of 12.9%, in university graduates it was 6.6%, with additional advantages such as salary (an average annual income of 12,000 euros higher than those employed with post-compulsory studies), the type of contract and the occupation they perform.
Although the salary differences are smaller among the young population, the average income of the graduates is higher by almost 4,000 euros.