Employability of University Graduates as a Measure of Quality

Abstract

This paper aims to compare the assessments of the quality of education formulated by the Polish Accreditation Committee with graduate employability data form the Polish Graduate Tracking System, focusing on individuals who obtained diplomas in selected fields of study in the years 2014-2018. The results of the analyses indicate that graduates of universities that obtained a distinguished grade in the examined field of study are in a significantly better situation on the labour market than other graduates, while the situation of graduates of universities that obtained conditional grades, in turn, is not so clearly worse than graduates of universities with positive grades. Possible reasons for such a result of the analyses are discussed.