“Choosing the Right Degree: Insights and Satisfaction among University Graduates”

Now that the Ebau is just around the corner, with the controversy over the implementation of the new model served between the universities and the Ministry of Education, the students who take the dreaded test must decide which degree they will study. A decision of weight because it will condition to a great extent what they will dedicate themselves to once they finish their university education. A study carried out in Spain by Linkedin posed the following question to the users of this network: «If you went back to the University today, would you choose the same degree?». The most satisfied with their titles were computer engineers, since about 75% of them would study their degree again, while journalists head the list of those who would not do it again, since almost nine out of ten regret the decision. career they have studied.

A response that is marked both by the vocational aspect when choosing the title to study and by the situation offered by the labor market when it comes to finding a job that adapts to the training received in university years.

At the University of León, it is the Nursing graduates who have massively responded affirmatively to a similar question posed by the Office of Quality and Evaluation of the academic institution, which asks the graduates of the Vegazana and Ponferrada campuses «If you had to choose again, would you study the same title again?» at the time of making their labor insertion report after a few years of leaving the university classrooms.

The other side of the balance

But in front of them, there are three titles from the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences the most regretful with the degree completed: Marketing and Market Research, with 60% of dissatisfied and International Trade and Finance, with five out of ten. Despite this discontent, their degree of dissatisfaction is not as high as that which exists with other national degrees, where journalism leads with 87%, and a list that continues with Sociology (72%), Fine Arts (72% ), Communication (64%), Education (61%), Marketing and Management (60%), Medicine or Health Care (58%), Political Science (56%), Biology (52%) and Literature (52%).

It contrasts that among those titles in the national ranking there are some with which the graduates of the University of León are satisfied, such as Education, since 77% of Early Childhood teachers would take the same degree again, like 71% of those who mentioned Primary or 66% of those who studied Social Education. Spanish Language and Literature are taught at the University of León and the degree of satisfaction of these professionals with their training is 84%, compared to the national disappointment, where almost half would not study the same thing again.

Big differences
At the national level, the repentant shoot themselves in front of the graduates of the University of León

The satisfaction of the graduates of the University of León with the titles studied is quite high, compared to the data provided at the national level by the report carried out by Linkedin.

After the nurses, professionals with degrees in Electrical Engineering. 93% of Nursing graduates would return to study this profession, very marked by vocation and which, moreover, in recent years, has enjoyed recognition and high employability. Nine out of ten Electrical engineers would return to the same classrooms, closely followed by Mining engineers, with 88% of them so satisfied with their training and with the possibilities it has offered them that they would also study the same degree again. Biotechnologists, graduates in Spanish Language and its Literature and, as is the case at the national level, Computer Engineers are also in the same group, since in all three cases 84% ​​would study the same degree again. Biotechnologists are also among the most satisfied with their training, along with graduates in Aerospace Engineering or Art History.

At the national level, after computer scientists, those most satisfied with their training are graduates in Criminology (72%), Engineering (71%), Nursing (69%), Business Administration (66%), Finance (66%), Psychology (65%), %), and studies related to Construction (65%) and Human Resources (58%).