At least 29.5% of the people who completed their degree up to three years ago have not yet found their first job and unemployment is increasing. Therefore, those who finished their course a long time ago and have not yet entered the job market are 8.8%.
The data comes from the Brazilian Employability Survey, released this Thursday (12) by the Semesp Institute.
Higher education
Semesp is an organization that represents higher education providers in Brazil. The survey highlights the employability of graduates from public and private institutions across the country.
Although revealing the efficiency of the undergraduate degree in terms of profitability and success of professionals, 9,426 graduates of Brazilian higher education were interviewed, between October 14 and November 30, 2019.
However, 64.21 TP3T participants responded that they completed their undergraduate degree at a private institution and 35.81 TP3T at a public institution. In total, the participants represent 481 higher education institutions, of which 741 TP3T were private and 261 TP3T were public.
"This is the largest survey ever conducted with students leaving higher education to effectively determine the impact of university on their lives. There's a lot of talk about how good it is, that it increases employability, the salary, but this is not measured.
Administration leads
Because we have a lot of data from the Education Census about students who are currently studying, or from Enem [National High School Exam], unemployment, but after they leave higher education there is no research,” said Semesp's executive director, Rodrigo Capelato.
Next in the research, in the total of courses with the highest number of participants, are administration (8.4%); law (7.6%); biological sciences (4.4%), civil engineering (4.2%) and psychology (4.2%).
When considering only students from the private sector, the most representative courses are administration (12.2%); law (10.9%); psychology (5.5%); civil engineering (5.0%) and advertising and propaganda (4.3%).
In public institutions, these 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 the graduates from the private sector attended higher education in the evening (62.2%), compared to 22.3% from the public sector. Among those who studied in the public sector, 63.8% took the course full-time during the day.
Therefore, the study period, daytime and nighttime, highlights the percentage of participants who responded that they had gotten their first job before even completing the course, 56.0% at nighttime, against 27.9% at daytime.
However, the research shows that there was no significant difference between graduates from public and private institutions who responded that they worked in an area other than their training: 22.5% from the private network, against 21.8% from the public network.
In short, the relevance of the diploma in the profitability of professionals also draws attention in the research: before completing the course, only 5.8% earned more than R$ 5 thousand and, after finishing the degree, the unemployment percentage of graduates with this income jumped to 41.4%.