School of Business Graduates in Working Life

Career monitoring surveys

Aalto University School of Business Career Services follows the labour market situation of our master's degree graduates one year after graduation and career development five years after graduation. 

Career monitoring is conducted as a part of a national survey on academic graduates with the Aarresaari Career Services network representing 13 Finnish universities. The national results of the career monitoring are publicly available on the Ministry of Education and Culture's Vipunen information service as a PowerBI report. You can also read the latest results of the School of Business career monitoring survey here.

The placement career survey one year after the graduation is our own survey for master's graduates, and most of the information on this page is based on data from this survey. The information on this page comes from our masters' who graduated in 2017 (career monitoring survey respondents, response rate 40%) or 2022 (placement career survey respondents, response rate 35%).

Graduate profile

Of all master's graduates in 2022 51% were female and 49 % male. Of the graduates 14% were international.

Many graduates who responded to the placement survey a year after graduation said that their work is meaningful in many ways. Graduates say, for example, that they have the opportunity to help people and customers, to contribute to society through marketing, to help make business more sustainable or even to improve public services through various projects. Many of the respondents felt that when the work is meaningful for the company, environment and society, it gives meaning to their own work, too.

They are also very happy with their degree in the terms of employment. They would also recommend the studies and say that the employers value the degree. 

Of our students, 84% found employment before graduation

According to the placement survey, 84% of our students found employment before completing their studies.

One year after the graduation 93% of graduates were employed or were entrepreneurs, 3% had full-time doctorate studies and 2% other full-time studies. 1% were unemployed.

Of the employed graduates, 92% found employment in Finland and 8% abroad. Of those who worked abroad, majority worked around Europe. 

New graduates of Aalto University School of Business report working under more than a hundred different job titles. Above, you can see examples of some of them.

Most graduates work at a large company

Majority of the graduates of Aalto University School of Business find employment in large (61%) and small & medium sized (25%) companies. Graduates get employment also from universities (6%), municipalities (4%), state (1%), universities of applied sciences (1%) and 2% employ themselves. Some examples of our graduates' employers one year after graduation are shown below.

Most popular industries and the salary

School of Business graduates are employed in a wide range of industries. The most popular industries include consultancy (24%), finance (16%) and industrial (9%). 

You can find all of the industries after one year, and salaries one year and five years after the graduation below.

Social media is the most popular channel for job search

For our graduates, the most popular channels to find employment are social media (e.g. LinkedIn) (49%), organizations' own websites (26%) and job portals (e.g. Duunitori, Oikotie) (26%). However, graduates use many ways to find the employment.