Three out of four graduates seeking jobs found one

More than 75 percent of last year's college and university graduates seeking employment have found a job, the results of a survey released yesterday by a National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) research center showed.

The survey, conducted by NTNU's Center for Research and Educational Evaluation and Development, found that 44 percent of the 268,151 college and university students who graduated last year planned to find work after obtaining their degree, while 28 percent wanted to further their studies and 20 percent were readying for their compulsory military service.

Among those graduates actively looking for employment, 77.3 percent found jobs, the survey said.

This meant that 34 percent of all of last year's university and college graduates had found work.

Of the total number of graduates who found jobs, 13 percent found work in the education sector, followed by 12 percent in healthcare and social work fields and 11 percent in financial services and insurance fields.

All 162 colleges and universities in Taiwan took part in the survey, conducted between March and November last year, with 203,064 questionnaires collected.