Students who graduate from universities of applied sciences get jobs very quickly. That is especially true for people who have completed teacher training. Over 96 percent of them had a job immediately after graduating. According to annual figures from a research center at Maastricht University, 2.8 percent of recent HBO graduates are unemployed. That percentage is comparable to previous years. Newly graduated HBO students earn an average of around 3,242 euros gross per month.
There is more than enough work for recent HBO graduates. Nine out of ten students who graduated from a university of applied sciences in the 2020-2021 academic year (87 percent) immediately found work, according to the HBO Monitor published on Tuesday. Only 7 percent of graduates took longer than three months to find a job last year. A year earlier, that was still 11 percent.