Survey: The graduates stay in Greece and set up their own businesses

Universities are getting ready to select their new freshmen, hoping for a new academic year without any new problems or fetters posed by the pandemic. Many of these Universities are ready to come up against any difficulty that will arise by the beginning of the new academic year.

A survey made by the Athens University of Economics and Business in the previous days revealed that its graduates are the ones to find a job in an easier way once they graduate. This fact comes out from the third survey that will be presented soon and officially, after the presentation of the previews two ones, conducted in 2012 and in 2018.

As it appears from this survey:

36% of all its graduates decided to continue their studies in order to increase their qualifications.
Eight out of ten graduates who continued their studies, they immediately chose a Postgraduate Program and 65.5% of them stayed in Greece. Six out of ten graduates did not choose the AUEB for their postgraduate studies.
In total, almost seven out of ten choose postgraduate studies that are directly related to their undergraduate studies.
Seven out of ten of all graduates are already working. The vast majority of graduates of the Athens University of Economics and Business work as full-time employees. Only six percent of graduates are employed in a company they own.
Many of the University graduates, however, go forward with setting up their own business based on the scientific knowledge they gained during their studies.

Out of all the graduates who set up their own business, one in two did so within one year of their graduation and nine out of ten of these businesses remain active.