Labor market insertion of university graduates

U-Ranking offers two tools for monitoring and evaluating the labor market insertion of university graduates in Spain. Learn more about them, how they are developed, and the information they are based on.

Do you want to know which studies have better job placement results?

Check the U-Ranking labor market insertion ranking, which ranks 108 fields of study - grouping more than 4,700 degrees - according to the results obtained by university graduates in Spain.

The ranking is developed based on information on access to employment, job level qualification, and income received four years after graduation.

In addition to the global ranking, the tool sorts the results separately according to each of the indicators.

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What is the labor market insertion of studies for each university?

Access this tool to consult and compare employment outcomes according to the field of study and the university where the degrees are offered.

This search engine provides a database with six key indicators on the labor market insertion of university graduates during the four years following their graduation.

Select one of the 126 fields of study and customize the query according to the Spanish region where the university is located, the type of ownership, the gender of the graduates, and the time elapsed since graduation.

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HOW IS THE LABOR MARKET INSERTION RANKING DEVELOPED?

The 108 fields of study are ordered according to a synthetic index that considers three indicators of the labor market insertion of university graduates in Spain four years after their graduation. The combination of these three indicators allows a global comparison between the results of the different fields of study. Additionally, it allows to consult the results of the fields in each individual indicator. The indicators that make up the synthetic index are:

  • Average Employment rate: Percentage of university graduates affiliated with Social Security and employed relative to the total number of graduates
  • Employed as graduates: Percentage of university graduates employed in positions that match their level of education. University level is considered: Social Security contribution groups for professionals with higher education (engineers, graduates, senior management, and technical engineers).
  • Average Contribution Base: average annual contribution base for graduates working full-time under an employment contract.

Each of these indicators is standardized concerning the mean value of the 108 fields. The resulting indicators are aggregated using a geometric mean. The weights assigned to the indices equally distribute (1/3) the importance in the synthetic index of access to employment (employment rate), job qualification (employed as graduated), and income (average contribution base).

WHICH INDICATORS CAN I EXPLORE BY UNIVERSITY?

The website provides, for each university and field of study, the number of graduates and the labor market insertion results in six key indicators:

  • Employment rate: Percentage of university graduates affiliated with Social Security and employed relative to the total number of graduates
  • Employed as graduates: Percentage of university graduates employed in positions that match their level of education. University level is considered: Social Security contribution groups for professionals with higher education (engineers, graduates, senior management, and technical engineers).
  • Average contribution base: Average annual contribution base of graduates working as employees with a full-time contract.
  • Full-time contract: Percentage of Social Security affiliates working as employees with a full-time contract
  • Indefinite contract: Percentage of university graduates affiliated with Social Security under an indefinite contract.
  • Self-employed: Percentage of Social Security affiliates under the self-employed regime

Both tools are developed based on the latest data from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities on the Social Security affiliation of graduates from the 2018-19 academic year and monitor their labor market insertion during the four years following their graduation, from 2020 to 2023.

The information is grouped into more than a hundred fields of study in which university degrees are classified. The data refer to the population affiliated to the Spanish Social Security system, so those population groups that are not affiliated are excluded from the indicators:

  • Graduates who exercise their profession as self-employed or who are affiliated to a mutual society of their professional association.
  • Graduates working in a foreign country and therefore not affiliated to Spain’s Social Security.

Due to statistical confidentiality, data is not provided for those fields of study with less than 25 graduates, and instead, a dash is shown in the search engine by fields of study and university. In some fields of study, the indicators may show very low values in the first years because they require an additional training period in order exercise their profession.