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 the School of Business and Economics.
During the years 2017-2023, 3065 people graduated from the Business School. Of these, 39 percent were men and 61 percent women. In our most recent alumni survey, conducted during the spring semester of 2023 and the spring semester of 2024, we examined 2562 of them; a response rate of 84 percent.
This is the result
- 86 percent worked
- 4 percent continued their studies
- 2 percent were jobseekers
- 8 percent unknown
- 1070 live in Värmland County
- 575 live in Stockholm County
- 391 live in Västra Götaland County
- 59 live in another country
- 86 percent had gotten a job / studied further within six months after graduation
- 91 percent had gotten a job / studied further within 18 months after graduation (for alumni 2017-2019)
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.
