Haaga-Helia graduates are highly employable

In autumn 2022, a total of 10 722 graduates from 2017 from all over Finland responded to the career monitoring survey of students of polytechnics and universities of applied sciences. Haaga-Helia had 864 respondents with a response rate of 44.5%.

According to the responses to the career monitoring survey, UAS graduates are almost fully employed. 76% of respondents had a permanent full-time job five years after graduation and 8% had a temporary full-time job. The number of unemployed jobseekers among graduates was around 10% of the respondents at the time of graduation.

Haaga-Helia opens doors to working life

Responses from graduates of Haaga-Helia showed that five years after graduation, 80% of respondents had a permanent full-time job and 5% had a temporary full-time job. At the time of graduation, 61% of the graduates were in permanent full-time employment and 13% in temporary full-time employment.

Employment among graduates with a Master's degree is also good. In 2017, 68% of all graduates from all universities of applied sciences had found a new job during or after completing their Master's degree, compared to 78% of graduates from Haaga-Helia.

International talent stays in Finland quite well

Some 384 alumni whose mother tongue is not Finnish, Swedish or Sami responded to the survey. Of these, 21% had their first job abroad at the time of graduation, which is slightly less than before. Some 26% of international students worked abroad five years after graduation, a slight increase from the previous year.

Haaga-Helia's international graduates stay in Finland quite well. Around 18% of respondents went to work abroad after graduation. Five years after graduation, around 20% of respondents had headed abroad.