Studying Food Science in the Swiss Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

This report assesses the situation of food science graduates one and five years after graduation by investigating their satisfaction with the study program, their job profiles and the overall labor market outcomes. We shed light on the difference between graduates from different universities by comparing the situation of graduates from ETH Zurich and graduates from universities of applied sciences (UAS). The analyses rely on the Swiss Graduate Survey, which is a survey among graduates from formal pro-grams at universities and universities of applied sciences in Switzerland. We focus on the period from 2008 to 2018.