Follow-up of graduates and their importance for Higher Education institutions

Abstract

This article emphasizes the importance of graduate follow-up as a means of evaluating and providing feedback to higher education institutions. In conducting these studies, valuable knowledge about alumni experiences and outcomes is gained. this follow-up act has a dual purpose within an institution as to provide valuable self-awareness that can inform the development of improvement policies or institutional direction and also facilitate resource allocation to initiatives that improve academic quality and support projects that involve graduates, thus raising the training of future professionals. That is why the objective of this paper is to know how the follow-up to graduates is constituted in this link with universities and turn highlight the importance of the follow-up to graduates for higher education institutions as an evaluation and feedback strategy. The research was quantitative-descriptive; surveys were carried out among groups of graduates of the Technical University of Babahoyo. Among the results, it is highlighted that a large percentage of respondents are doing work activities directly related to their graduation career are in constant relationship with the university through their programs of study and professional improvement, and are always ready to engage in activities of the institution. In this way, it is possible to understand more clearly the role that higher education institutions play in the training of graduates and what are the requirements that society needs to meet, mainly through the demands of the labor market, as well as the interaction that occurs between the actors that are part of a system of follow-up to graduates.