After graduation - facts about alumni
In order to ensure that our educations are well adapted to the needs of the labor market, we regularly follow up the alumni who have graduated from Karlstad Business School.
Between 2017 and 2025, 4,070 individuals graduated from the School of Business. Of these, 40 percent were men and 60 percent were women. In our most recent alumni survey, conducted during the spring semester of 2025 and the spring semester of 2026, we have studied 3,431 of them—a response rate of 84 percent.
This is the result
- 86 percent worked
- 3 percent continued their studies
- 2 percent were jobseekers
- 9 percent unknown
- 1413 live in Värmland County
- 768 live in Stockholm County
- 545 live in Västra Götaland County
- 78 live in another country
- 81 percent had gotten a job / studied further within six months after graduation
- 90 percent had gotten a job / studied further within 18 months after graduation (for alumni 2017-2024)
Ordinary occupational roles
- Auditor
- Business analysts
- Brokers
- Legal advisor
- Project
- Key account manager
- Consultant
- It consultant
- Controller
Some of those who employed students from the Karlstad Business School
- IKEA
- SBAB Bank
- Fastighetsbyrån
- Consumer Agency
- Spotify
- Grant Thornton
- Swedish Real Estate Agency
- SkandiaMäklarna
A growing proportion of alumni have international experience from studying abroad and many today work in a country other than Sweden.
