According to research released y the European Commission, Malta holds the record first place for university graduates who are successfully employed after the completion of their tertiary education.
Researchers found out that the employment rate for recent graduates in Malta is close to ninety-seven per cent (96.7%), while the European Union average is only about eighty-five per cent (85.5%).
This is one of the highest employment rates recorded in the history of the European Union. For comparison, the EU average has increased by an insignificant half percentage point compared to 2017, and the highest ever average for the union was in 2008 at eighty-nine per cent (89.6%).
Employment and continued education in Malta
An important distinction has to be made when it comes to the employment of university graduates in Malta. In fact, most of the students between twenty-four and thirty years old managed to secure a job. However, the data is a little different for younger students, between eighteen and twenty-four years old. As it turns out, Malta has one of the highest rates of drop-out students in the European Union.
Considering this, only the most ambitious and motivated students manage to pull through the first two years of tertiary education. This trend might serve as an explanation for the impressive employability of tertiary education graduates in the country.
Close behind are countries like the Netherlands and Germany, both with ninety-four per cent of graduates in employment.
Germany has also recently entered in a joint project with China to boost vocational education as well.
