Due to the impact of COVID-19, the employment rate of university and graduate school graduates last year fell to the lowest level since the 2011 survey.
According to '2020 Higher Education Institutions Graduate Employment Statistics', a total of 312,000 graduates in August 2019 and February 2020, and 65.1% of those eligible for employment, were found to be employed.
This is the lowest level since the survey began in 2011 and is down 2 percentage points from 67.1% in the previous year.
Looking at the number of employed persons by field, health insurance workers accounted for about 280,000, or 91%, overseas employment, about 1,100, or 0.4%, single-person start-ups and entrepreneurs, with 5,300, or 1.7%, freelancers About 18,000 people, or 5.8%.
The ratio of health insurance workers and freelancers increased compared to the previous year, but those employed overseas and single-person start-ups and entrepreneurs fell by 0.5 percentage points and 0.2 percentage points, respectively.
An official from the Ministry of Education explained, "It is understood that it was not easy to find a job overseas last year due to the influence of Corona 19, and even a one-person start-up or business was not easy due to the unstable economic situation."
Looking at the employment rate by interdisciplinary system, general graduate schools had the highest at 80.2% and general universities the lowest at 61.0%. I lost.
The employment rates in the metropolitan area and non-metropolitan areas were 66.8% and 63.9%, respectively, with a difference of 2.9 percentage points, which was wider than the 2.7 percentage points of the previous year.
In terms of gender employment rate, the employment rate of male graduates last year was 67.1% and that of female graduates was 63.1%, a 4.0 percentage point difference.
The gap in the employment rate between men and women is growing every year, reaching 3.0 percentage points in 2017, 3.6 percentage points in 2018, and 3.8 percentage points in 2019.
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