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Women represent 66% of USJ students, 25% of graduates emigrate
26-6-2019
An Nahar published today the findings of a survey by the USJ Observatory on the fate of the University’s graduates between 2009 and 2013. Results have shown that nearly 25% of USJ graduates are outside Lebanon for post graduate studies (34%), work (48%), family reasons (29%) or for permanent emigration (11%). According to the study, those wishing to return to their country are (31%) only, while (31%) are undecided and (30%) do not wish to return. What is interesting in the above figures, An Nahar wrote, is that women make up 66% of the USJ students, compared to the number of males, a large number of which leave the country after high school and return only for visits. This, the newspaper went on to say, adversely impacts the rate of marriages in the country. On the latter, the newspaper cited a not very recent study which estimated the rate of celibacy among females at 80.7% in the age group (20-24 years), 52.1% in the age group (25-29 year) and 33.5% in the age group (30-34 years), which is effectively big. The USJ Observatory survey results have shown that nearly 85% of graduate students work in the private sector, compared to 7% in the public sector only. The flight of university students from the public sector is not due to low salaries, but to the chaotic conditions combined with political favoritism. (An Nahar, June 26, 2019)
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