The employment rate of students planning to graduate from university in March 2018 reached 3%, an increase of 0.1 points from the same period of the previous year, the highest since the survey started in 86.0, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. A survey by both ministries revealed.
The survey extracted 112 graduates enrolled in a total of 6,250 colleges, junior colleges, colleges of technology, and vocational schools nationwide, and asked about the status of employment appointments as of December 2017, 12.
According to the report, the employment rate by region is the highest in the Kanto area, recording 88.2%.Kinki, which has a metropolitan area, had a high motivation to hire companies at 87.5% and Chubu at 87.1%, while Hokkaido / Tohoku had 84.6%, China / Shikoku at 78.7%, and Kyushu at 80.1%. The harshness of the region was highlighted.
The employment rate of 4-year university students was 86.9% at national and public universities, the same as the same period of the previous year, and 1.3% at private universities, an increase of 85.7 points.By gender, male students increased by 2.1 points to 85.2%, while female students decreased by 0.2 points to 87.0%.National and public universities have 86.9% for boys and 87.0% for girls, and private universities have 84.7% for boys and 87.0% for girls.By liberal arts and science, liberal arts increased by 1.1 points to 85.7%, and science increased by 0.6 points to 87.2%.
Junior colleges decreased by 2.8 points to 75.4%, colleges of technology decreased by 0.7 points to 97.6%, and vocational schools decreased by 1.8 points to 68.9%.
Both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare have analyzed that the economic recovery has increased the willingness to hire companies and that the number of cases of early offer is increasing.
