Seville, (EFE).- 70.6% of Andalusian university students are working and affiliated with Social Security four years after completing their studies, according to the report on the Insertion of Graduates in Andalusian Public Universities prepared by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA), belonging to the Ministry of Economy and analyzed by the Ministry of University, Research and Innovation.
This is the highest percentage of labor insertion of those achieved by any promotion since the 2011-2012 academic year. As reported by the Junta de Andalucía in a statement.
For this report, the class that graduated in the 2017-2018 academic year has been taken as a reference. And that, therefore, in 2022 he had already completed the four years of work experience.
This same study also reveals that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Health Sciences and Social Services, and Engineering are the specialties with the greatest job opportunities.
year of the pandemic
Each of the promotions studied presents insertion rates that improve as time passes since they graduated. With the exception of the 2015-2016 promotion, whose fourth year after graduation coincided with 2020. The year in which the pandemic influenced the hiring of graduates. For this case, the percentage stood at 66.6%.
In the oldest promotion studied, that of 2011-2012, the registered rate was 60.8%. It is followed by 65% in 2012-2013, and 66.8% in 2013-2014. In 2014-2015, 68.4% and in 2016/2017, 69.6%.
If the period of one year after the completion of university education is taken as a reference, the students who graduated from the 2020-2021 academic year -the last one that can be analyzed- are the ones with the highest job opportunities, with 56.1%.
In this case, the rate of entry into the labor market is also the highest of the last ten promotions. And they are followed, with 52.8%, by graduates in 2019-2020.
ICTs, greater employability
By subjects, the IECA report classifies the teachings into ten large branches, in which the various university degrees are grouped. Education; Arts, Humanities and Languages; Social Sciences, Journalism and Documentation; Business, Administration and Law. Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. Information Communication Technologies (ICT), Mechanics, Electronics, Industry and Construction; Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Forestry and Veterinary. Health and Social Services; and Services.
Among all of them, the area with the best level of employability in the fourth year after finishing university, for which the 2017-2018 academic year is taken as a reference, is ICT, with a percentage of 86.1%. Followed by Health Sciences and Social Services, with a percentage of 85%. A figure that rises to 91.8% in the case of the Medicine degree. Or up to 91.4% for Nursing graduates.
Next, are Engineering related to Mechanics, Electronics, Industry and Construction, which show an index of 79.8%. Added to this are degrees related to Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, with a degree of insertion of 77.9%.
More than half, with an indefinite contract
At the opposite extreme, the fields that offer the worst level of insertion in the fourth year after graduation are Arts, Humanities and Languages (56.6%), Social Sciences, Journalism and Documentation (63.8%) and Education (65.5% ). Business, Administration and Law (68.4%), Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics (69.7%) and Services (73.4%) are located at intermediate levels.
In the first year of landing in the labor market, ICT, Health Sciences and Engineering are the ones that continue to register the best job options in that same order, taking the 2020-2021 academic year as a reference.
Regarding the type of contract, 52.6% of university students were working as of September 30, 2022 with an indefinite contract, while temporary contracts affected 43.5%, although the distribution changes if takes into account the sex of the graduates: 45.2% of women worked with a temporary contract, compared to 40.9% of men.
Labor insertion among men was 59.8%, while in women this parameter dropped to 56.2% and registered unemployment is more frequent among them, with 11.8%, than among men , with 8.2%. EFE