The opinion of employers regarding the education received by graduates in Construction

This report sets out evidence regarding the implementation and delivery of study programmes in the field of Construction gleaned from the results of the 2018 survey on employers in this sector. Three groups of study programmes may be distinguished: Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering. It is also necessary to consider that most of the Bachelor’s degrees within those groups qualify graduates in order to practice the professions regulated within these degree programmes. The annex to this document shows the study programmes included within each group along with the regulated professions.
The survey strives to gain an acquaintance of the opinion of companies in the Construction sector regarding the education received by the recently graduated individuals they have recruited, particularly with regard to cross-disciplinary and specific skills which bear substantial margin for improvement.
In addition to these results, the report incorporates an initial section with contextual information on the study programmes in Construction, setting out basic data on the study programmes and the main results of the surveys on the satisfaction of individuals who have recently graduated from these study programmes, as well as the results of the survey on their access to the labour market.