At least 29.5% of people who graduated up to three years ago have not yet found their first job and unemployment increases. Thus, those who finished their course longer ago and have not yet entered the job market are 8.8%.
The data are from the Employability Survey in Brazil, released this Thursday (12) by the Semesp Institute.
University education
Therefore, Semesp is an entity that represents providers of higher education in Brazil. The survey points to the employability of graduates from public and private institutions in all regions of the country.
Although revealing the efficiency of the graduation diploma in terms of profitability and success of professionals.9,426 graduates of Brazilian higher education were interviewed,..in the period from October 14 to November 30, 2019.
However, 64.2% participants answered that they had completed their graduation in a private institution and 35.8% in a public institution. In total, participants represent 481 Higher Education Institutions, 74% private and 26% public.
“This is the largest survey ever carried out with students who left higher education to effectively verify the impact of having attended university on their lives. Much is said that it is good, that it increases employability, the salary, but this is not measured.
Management leads
Because we have a lot of data from the Education Census about the student who is studying, or from the Enem [National High School Examination], unemployment, but after they leave higher education there is no survey”, said the executive director of Semesp, Rodrigo Capelate.
Then the survey, in the total of courses with the highest number of participants, lead administration (8.4%); right (7.6%); biological sciences (4.4%), civil engineering (4.2%) and psychology (4.2%).
When considering only students from the private network, the most representative courses are administration (12.2%); right (10.9%); psychology (5.5%); civil engineering (5.0%) and publicity and advertising (4.3%).
In public institutions, they are courses in biological sciences (8.4%); mechanical engineering (6.6%); computer science (5.2%); geography (3.6%) and veterinary medicine (3.6%).
More than half of graduates from the private network attended higher education at night (62.2%), against 22.3% from the public. Among those who studied in the public network, 63.8% took the course full-time during the day.
For this reason, the study period, day and night, highlights the percentage of participants who answered that they got their first job even before completing the course, 56.0% for the night shift, against 27.9% for the day shift.
However, the research shows that there was no significant difference between graduates from public and private institutions who responded to work in an area other than their training: 22.5% from the private network, against 21.8% from the public one.
In short, the relevance of the diploma in the profitability of professionals also draws attention in the survey: before completing the course, only 5.8% earned more than R$ 5 thousand and, after graduation, the unemployment percentage of graduates with this income jumped to 41.4%.
