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The Bachelor's Degree in Tourism achieves more than 90% job insertion

Prospective students 14 September 2021

93% of 2016 graduates of the Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management are currently employed. This is according to “Job insertion of 2020 graduates”, a survey conducted by the AQU.

93% of 2016 graduates of the Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management are currently employed. This is according to “Job insertion of 2020 graduates”, a survey conducted by the AQU—the agency in charge of monitoring the quality of Catalonia’s university system.

The School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Sant Ignasi (URL) also obtained a 7.1–a higher score than all other universities—in the quality of employment index, or IQO. This index measures how appropriate jobs are to what students studied.

The IQO uses four indicators: contract, job satisfaction, retribution and adequacy. The higher the index, the better the job quality; this means that the Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism is the has the highest adequacy of all bachelor’s programs in tourism offered in Catalonia.

Nearly 83% of alumni from the class of 2016 found their first job less than 3 months after graduating. 92.9% work full time, while 73.1% earn more than €2,000 a month. As a result, HTSI is once again the tourism school with the highest average salary.

As for job insertion and job satisfaction, HTSI also continues to obtain excellent scores: 8.3 out of 10 in satisfaction with job content, and 7.8 in general satisfaction with current employment.

The Bachelor's Degree in Tourism promotes the employability of its students

One of the main goals of the Bachelor’s Program is to promote the employability of its students in the field of tourism and hotel management and to guide them when it comes time to build their professional future. As a result, students complete both obligatory and optional business internships during their studies; this helps to increase their employability and get professional experience even before graduating. The Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management is offered in Barcelona, but students can complete their internships at international hotels, event management companies or other tourism businesses.

The department of Corporate Relations is in constant contact with both businesses and students, so it has first-hand knowledge of the professional demands of the sector and students’ skills. HTSI works alongside students to help them prepare a professional itinerary that ensures better job insertion.