Almalaurea: sic transit gloria mundi

Abstract

The Inter-University Consortium AlmaLaurea, based in Bologna, this year celebrates twenty years of activity: founded in 1994, today it brings together 65 Italian universities, representing more than 80% of the national student population. Since then, AlmaLaurea has grown, exporting world-wide a system, unique in Europe, that has obtained international recognition. Besides reducing the gap between demand and supply for jobs, AlmaLaurea has created a tool capable of evaluating and monitoring, in the short, medium and long term, the outcome of graduates’ study and employment, one, three and five years after they have graduated. Through its annual surveys, the Consortiumthus provides each participating university, the governing bodies of the universities, evaluation cells, and committees involved in teaching activities and counseling with complete, timely and reliable documentation. In addition, its database, which contains almost 2,000,000 certified CVs in Italian and in English, is also an important supporting tool for both public and private Italian and foreign companies.

Keywords

• AlmaLaurea
• education
• university
• employment
• graduates
• young people