The Engineering@UPF Teaching Quality and Innovation Support Unit completed a study about the Fourth Graduate class in ICT Engineering: Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences and Bachelor's degree in Telematics Engineering: class of 2012-2016 (here the study about the first graduate class, here about the second and here about the third).

The study covered three aspects: academic, personal, and professional / plans for the future. Almost 46% of ICT Degrees students took part in the study; 38.8% (BCS), 36.7% (BASE) and 24.5% (BTE). The distribution of population regarding gender is 81.6% men and 18.4% women.

From the results it can be seen that, among the general competences that participants perceive as those developed at the highest levels, the ones that stand out are: the capacity to recognize and understand diversity, multiculturalism and non-discrimination based on gender (4.7/5), working in teams (4/5), the capacity to communicate with property (oral and written) in Catalan and Spanish in front of expert and inexperienced audiences (4/5) and critical and self-critical ability (4/5).

The Bachelors Final Project (BFP) was an element especially well valued by Graduate class in this edition, and the fact to attend classes in English and the improvement of their level of English language as well.

In addition, participants let us know that after the degree, they saw themselves working in the private company (51%), followed by creating / working in a company of their own, expanding training and doing research.

Finally, and thanks of a parallel study carried out by USQUID and based on a search in LinkedIn, we founded 96 profiles of the whole 107 graduates this year. From this 96, the 79.4% (85) seems updated. 27 of them (31,77%) have continued with some training program and 78 (91,77%) they were working in an ICT Engineering job. Detailing regarding each cohort, we can say that BASE graduates work in audiovisual topics/jobs (46,43%), BCS have jobs related with programming (62,15%), and the BTE in consulting (54,55%), and the 45.45% of them have a job related with programming.