[2023.01.10] Sungkyunkwan University has achieved the highest employment rate among universities for seven consecutive years.
- SKKU National Program of Excellence in Software
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- 2023-01-16
[Announcement of employment rate]
"78.5%" Sungkyunkwan University ranked first in employment for seven years...Sogang, Yonsei, Hanyang University, in this order.
'64.2%'
The average employment rate of all university graduates in Korea increased by 3.1 percentage points from the previous year. It is interpreted as a "reflective recruitment" effect as companies' hiring decreased during COVID-19. However, the employment rate to be announced next year is expected to shrink again as the business environment of companies becomes uncertain due to the global economic crisis. In addition, the employment rate is expected to decrease further as the hiring of public institutions, which previously recruited tens of thousands, is reduced. In particular, experts analyzed that the gap in employment rates between universities will widen depending on whether universities establish contract departments with companies such as Samsung, SK, and Hyundai Motor.
The Ministry of Education and the Korea Educational Development Institute announced the employment rate of graduates in February 2021 (including graduates in August 2020) through "University alimi" on the 6th. According to the 'university alimi' data, the total four-year university employment rate was 64.2%. Since 65.0% in 2015, the overall employment rate of four-year universities has continued to decline to 64.9% in 2016, 64.6% in 2017, 62.8% in 2018, 64.4% in 2019, 63.4% in 2020, and 61.1% in 2021, but it rebounded this year.
The data released this time is the employment rate of graduates in February 2021 (including graduates in August 2020). The reason for announcing the disclosure data two years ago is that it is easy to identify employed people with health insurance, but there is a slight time lag in identifying other employed people, such as graduate school students, individual creative activists, and overseas workers.
The characteristic of this university employment rate is the 'COVID-19 Reflection Effect'. The average employment rate at 11 major universities in Seoul reached 70.1 percent. Sungkyunkwan University has maintained the No. 1 employment rate at four-year universities nationwide for the seventh consecutive year with a 78.5 percent employment rate. The employment rate was the second highest ever, up 2.5 percentage points from the previous 76.0 percent. Sogang University, which has a relatively high proportion of humanities, remained in second place with 71.9 percent, following last year. Major universities whose employment rate rose were Yonsei University 70.0% → 71.4%, University of Seoul 67.9% → 69.2%, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 62.5% → 63.9%, and Ewha Womans University 62.3% → 64.9%. The employment rate at Seoul National University was 71.1 percent, the same as last year. The employment rate at Korea University, Hanyang University, Chung-Ang University Seoul Campus, and Kyunghee University was lower than before.
The maintenance employment rate is an indicator of the employment status of employees. This means that graduates of each university have found a stable place to work. It is an employment rate index introduced in 2012 to prevent universities from hiring graduates for a short period of time and reflecting them in the employment rate. Sungkyunkwan University also had the highest maintenance employment rate (4th) at 91.1%. Sogang University (90.0%), Korea University and University of Seoul (89.3%), Yonsei University (88.9%), Seoul National University (88.3%), Hanyang University (87.7%), and Chung-Ang University Seoul Campus (87.2%) showed high maintenance employment rates.
Meanwhile, the competition rate with the contract department was high in this year's regular entrance exam. In the case of contract departments with guaranteed recruitment, the competition rate was up to 11.88 to 1. According to Etus Edu and U-Way, the average competition rate of nine departments in six universities (Yonsei University, Korea University, Sogang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Hanyang University, and Kyungpook National University) was 5.77 to 1, higher than that of other departments. Hanyang University's Semiconductor Engineering Department had the highest competition rate of 11.88 to 1, followed by Sogang University's System Semiconductor Engineering Department 11.20 to 1, and Korea University's Next Generation Communication Department 7.25 to 1. All of them were recorded as the highest competition at each university. A university employment official predicted, "In the future, if the manpower emitted through the contract department is reflected in the employment rate, the employment rate gap will widen."