30-01-2019

 

Times of Oman

Muscat: The Ministry of Higher Education will conclude on Thursday the 2019 graduates’ survey.

30,269 graduates completed survey questionnaire on Tuesday, representing 53 per cent of the total number of graduates targeted in the survey. The total percentage of graduates of the academic year 2016/2017 was 48 per cent of the total number of graduates targeted for this academic year.

The percentage of graduates of the academic year 2017/2018 was 57 per cent of the total number of targets of this academic year.

Regarding the response rate among graduates of the two academic years, the response rate of female graduates was 57 per cent compared to 45 per cent for male graduates.

The Department of Graduates Survey at the Ministry of Higher Education monitors the response rate on a daily basis by monitoring five main variables: the percentage of response by institution, type, year of graduation, qualification and field of study.