With the survey results, we will be able to develop our activities, address working life competence needs, use the results in students' career guidance, and work towards our organisational strategic goals. Furthermore, the results of the survey are used by the Ministry of Education and Culture in the assessment of universities of applied sciences, and they have an impact on LAB's funding. Therefore, every response counts.
The online questionnaire is sent in October–November to those who graduated from a UAS five years ago with either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. The survey is conducted by the career monitoring network of UASs and CSC – ICT Center for Science. The need of this information is based on the University of Applied Sciences Act (932/2014) and the related regulation (1129/2014).
Last year, 477 LAB alumni graduated in 2019 responded to the survey. The respondents are fairly satisfied with their education: 85% of respondents are at least fairly satisfied with their degree in terms of their career prospects, and 88% of respondents are at least fairly satisfied with their careers so far.