DTU ranks first among Danish universities when it comes to the study programmes’ relevance to the employers with which graduates will be applying for a job. This is the result of a major questionnaire survey among students and graduates conducted by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
For the first time ever, all students on higher education programmes in Denmark as well as new graduates have been asked to evaluate their study programme. This was done by means of a questionnaire which more than 76,000 students and 43,000 new graduates have completed.
An article published in Politiken (a leading Danish newspaper) on Monday, 6 March stated that among all Danish universities, DTU students gave the quality of their study programmes the highest scores.
Philip Binning, Senior Vice President, Dean of Graduate Studies and International Affairs, is delighted:
“We’re very pleased with the results of the ministry’s new survey. Even though one should be careful with comparing the individual study programmes and universities in this way, I will say that it confirms our own image of the quality of DTU’s study programmes. We’ve worked hard to create good and relevant study programmes and a good study environment, and we’re pleased to see that own internal surveys show the same results as the ministry’s survey,” he says.
"We’ve worked hard to create good and relevant study programmes and a good study environment, and we’re pleased to see that own internal surveys show the same results as the ministry’s survey."
Philip John Binning, Dean of Graduate Studies and International Affairs
Among other things, Philip Binning refers to a survey conducted among DTU’s new graduates, of which 98 per cent say that they would recommend DTU to their friends.
In 2015, DTU’s graduate survey also showed that 97 per cent of the graduates were able to confirm that their study programme was of a high quality.
This survey is also supported by the ministry’s survey, in which one of the questions was to what extent the students agree or disagree with the statement “The knowledge I have acquired on my study programme is in line with the competences demanded by my current or past employer”. Here, DTU ranks first among Danish universities with an average of 3.83 on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The University of Southern Denmark ranks second with an average of 3.74 and Aarhus University third with 3.72.
As regards the technical-scientific main area at the different universities, 85 per cent of the graduates ‘Strongly agree’ and ‘Agree’ with the statement:“My study programme has provided me with the qualifications needed in my current or past job”. 73 per cent answer: “The knowledge I have acquired on my study programme is in line with the competences demanded by my current or past employer”.
The following question also got a high score: To what extent do you agree with the following statement? “The knowledge I have acquired on my study programme is in line with the competences demanded by my current or past employer”, distributed on the universities’ main academic areas. Here, ‘Engineering’ obtained a 3.83 score. There were 2,455 respondents.
The main results of the survey can be found at Uddannelseszoom.dk, which is a digital tool designed to help future students choose a study programme on a more informed basis.
Uddannelseszoom allows students to compare information on vocational education and training and higher education programmes across various parameters.
The Uddannelseszoom tool supports the students in choosing a study programme by providing information on the quality of the study programmes and their relevance in relation to job opportunities.