Almost half of the students in higher vocational training cycles in the Canary Islands have a job upon completing their studies.
Specifically, 44.6% of these students, while this percentage stands at 38.8% for intermediate vocational training cycles, according to the labor insertion statistics compiled by the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC) with data from 2024.
The higher vocational branch with the highest employability rate immediately after students finish their studies is wood, furniture, and cork (61.1%), followed by manufacturing and mechanics (59.1%) and administration and management (58.7%).
Regarding intermediate vocational training cycles, health is the one with the highest volume of students employed in the quarter after finishing their studies, with 51.2%, followed by food industries with 40.2%.
ISTAC also includes in its study an analysis of labor insertion one year after students have completed their studies and indicates that 62.6% of those who finished their higher degree in the 2022-2023 academic year were already working in 2024.
Almost three out of every four students who took higher administration and management had a job one year after finishing their studies, specifically 73.6%.
Transport and vehicle maintenance (78.2%) and installation and maintenance (78.1%) had even higher insertion rates, but with a smaller number of students.
In intermediate vocational training, the family with the highest labor insertion one year after completing training was health, with a rate of 72.8%.
Five years after graduation, labor insertion reaches its highest levels. According to the available data for students who graduated in 2019, 74.3% of higher degree graduates and 72.1% of intermediate degree graduates were working in 2024.
In the case of transport and vehicle maintenance, 85.9% of students, and in chemistry and food industries, 83.3% in both cases; in intermediate vocational training, installation and maintenance stands out with 82.1% labor insertion five years after graduation, transport and vehicle maintenance with 80.2%, and health with 79.5%.
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