Surveys on graduate employment
How surveys are conducted
Since 2001, the Catalan universities, in collaboration with AQU Catalunya, have been conducting the joint graduate employment market outcomes survey every three years.
The objectives of this project are to obtain data and references about the quality of entry f graduates into the jobs market, compare them, combine the information so that reliable conclusions can be reached in the area of Catalonia and generate historical documents that allow the trends and evolution of graduate entry into the employment market to be seen.
Entry into the employment market from the perspective of university graduates is complemented by the perspective of the employers, which you can see here in the study of entry into the employment market from the employers’ perspective.
The survey of entry into the employment market for graduates is carried out every three years: This years’ survey is the ninth and corresponds to 2026:
- Nearly 1,600 degree qualifications
- Plan to survey 45,000 graduates (25,000 Bachelor’s degrees and higher arts education graduates, 18,000 Master’s degrees and 3,000 PhDs)
- Graduates from the following academic years
- Bachelor’s degrees: 2021-2022, 2022-2023 (except Medicine 2018-2019 and 2019-2020)
- Master’s degrees: 2020-2021 and 2021-2022
- PhD programmes: 2020-2021 and 2021-2022
- Survey data collection from November 2025 to May 2026.
The eight previous surveys correspond to 2001, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2023.
The overall results of each survey were presented by AQU Catalunya:
Reports of joint results for the Catalan University System (SUC): 2026, 2023, 2020, 2017, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005 and 2001.
You can also consult the individual results by degree title* up to the 2026 survey at:
- The Graduates Observatory of the UAB where you can consult the reports for entry into employment market of graduates from 1998 on, which include quantitative studies (results of the surveys on entry into the employment market) and qualitative studies (results of discussion groups that took place with businesses and institutions about the professionalisation of our graduates).
- The EUC Data Portal of the Agency for Quality Assurance in the Catalan University System (AQU).
* In some cases the AQU publishes joint results for groups of UAB degree qualifications.
Questionnaire for the Survey of Entry into the Employment Market for Bachelor’s Degrees.
Reports of joint results for the Catalan University System (SUC): 2026, 2023, 2020, 2017 and 2014.
You can also consult the results by academic area up to the 2026 survey.
Questionnaire for the Survey of Entry into the Employment Market for Master’s Degrees.
Reports of joint results for the Catalan University System (SUC): 2026, 2023, 2020, 2017, 2014 and 2008.
You can also consult the results by academic area up to the 2026 survey.
Questionnaire for the Survey of Entry into the Employment Market for PhD programmes.
At the Graduate Observatory of the UAB you can consult the reports for entry into employment market of graduates from 1998 on, which include quantitative studies (results of the surveys on entry into the employment market) and qualitative studies (results of discussion groups that took place with businesses and institutions about the professionalisation of our graduates).
