Il Sole 24 Ore & La Stampa: For 77% of students, STEM disciplines offer more employment opportunities
Sources:
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- La Stampa, also in physical edition from June 14th, 2024, page 49.
Pubished on June 13th, 2024 by Teleborsa.
Italian university students are focusing on STEM degrees and online education for greater job opportunities
June 13th, 2024
5 min reading
63% of Italian university students believe that a degree in technical, digital or IT disciplines offers greater job opportunities than all others, demonstrating the importance of STEM skills in obtaining more employment opportunities at the end of the university cycle. This is a preference that is expressed not only by those who attend degree courses in this field, but also by students of humanities universities.
Furthermore, undergraduates also have clear ideas about the different ways to attend courses: 57% prefer a hybrid model of university education, with a balanced combination of in-person and live streaming lessons, as well as asynchronous digital content that can be accessed at any time. However, since this polarization between in-person universities or online universities still exists in Italy (11 online universities in the country), 73% of university students declare that they would be willing to attend exclusively online university courses if they were of recognized quality; ideally, if they were able to make the choice of taking a degree path again, 44% of students would no longer orient themselves towards a physical university but towards an online one, as long as it is a quality one.
The data emerge from a survey by OPIT – Open Institute of Technology, an academic institution accredited at European level, that carried out a sample of 1500 high school and university students belonging to the Docsity community, a platform for sharing documents and content of student interest, with more than 15 million members.
The research was presented during the event “University education in the era of Artificial Intelligence” (L’istruzione universitaria nell’era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale) which took place in Turin at Spazio35 at the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper. Moderated by the journalist Enrico Pagliarini, the discussions included Professor Francesco Profumo, Rector of OPIT (Open Institute of Technology) and former Minister of Education; Elena Bonfiglioli, Global Business Leader of Microsoft; Germano Buttazzo, senior manager for the Academic sector of LinkedIn; Alessandro Risaro, founder of DataPizza; and Riccardo Ocleppo, founder of OPIT and Docsity.
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