There is less unemployment among newly diplomates, but 80 higher education courses still maintain a higher unemployment rate than National Media.
Newly dublomates in Portugal are less and less affected by unemployment, with 87 courses where the unemployment rate is zero, as opposed to others 80 formations in which unemployment is higher than the national average.
These are some of the data available since this Friday on the portal, where young people who want to apply for higher education can get information about the more than six thousand courses, including undergraduate degrees, masters and professional technical courses (CTESP).
The Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC) analyzed the percentage of students who after finishing their degree or masters had asked for help from the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP) to find work and detected that at the end of 2023 they were much less than the previous year.
Among students from public institutions, the rate was 2.4%which represents a reduction of 0.7 percentage points in just one year, and among the newly dictates Private Institutions The rate was 2.5% (minus 1.2 percentage points than the previous year).
In a year when national unemployment rate was 6.5%the data confirm that higher education is increasingly a weapon against unemployment and that less and less are those who are inscribed in job centers looking for work.
Lusa compared more than a thousand undergraduate degrees and masters and found 87 courses with zero unemployment rates: more than ten thousand graduates who have completed their training and did not resort to employment centers. From this list stands out the health area, but there are also many courses that enable graduates to teach.
Medical courses in various colleges of the country or the law course at the Catholic University stand out for graduating thousands of graduates with a zero unemployment rate.
The National Report “Annual Balance of Education 2025” revealed this week that young people with greater qualification get better salaries And they are easier to find employment: having a master’s degree represents a salary about 80% higher than a worker with only secondary education, reads in the study released by Edulog.
But there are still courses that do not give this guarantee. Lusa’s analysis found 80 courses with an unemployment rate above the national average in 2023, that reached 6.5%.
In these courses that seem to lead to more cases of unemployed-78 undergraduate and only two masters-8,665 students were diploma, most in public institutions (59 public vs 21 private).
Os 80 courses with the highest percentage of students who enrolled in IEFP are mostly taught at Polytechnic Institutes (48), and the formation with the highest unemployment rate is Social Work from the Catholic University.
Infocuors presents varied information on More than six thousand formations In Portugal, it may be a help for students wishing to enter higher education: the calendar of applications for the next school year 2025/2026 runs from July 21 to August 4, with the results to be released on August 24.
