Kingston, Jamaica — A current survey has revealed that 45 per cent of Caribbean Maritime College (CMU) college students safe employment even earlier than finishing their research, with 74 per cent touchdown jobs inside six months of graduating. By the nine-month mark, this determine climbs to a formidable 80 per cent.
The research, titled Tracer Research of CMU Graduates 2019-2023 – Fostering Life-Lengthy Connection: Reaching Our Graduates, was performed by the college’s Analysis Division over a three-month interval in 2024. Its findings have been shared by CMU’s Supervisor for Institutional Analysis and Enterprise Intelligence, Lana-Gaye Franklyn-Inexperienced, throughout a current Jamaica Info Service (JIS) ‘Assume Tank’. The analysis employed a mixed-methods strategy, providing a complete take a look at the profession progress of graduates.
The survey focused 2,556 graduates from 2019 to 2023, with 994 people responding, reaching a 39 per cent response fee. Franklyn-Inexperienced famous that this stage of engagement is commendable for a tracer research. Among the many respondents, 99 per cent have been Jamaican nationals, consisting of 576 girls and 414 males. The remaining one per cent represented graduates from international locations reminiscent of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, america, Nigeria, and China.
Geographically, most native respondents have been from Kingston and St Andrew (306), adopted by St Catherine (237), Clarendon (84), St Thomas (51), St Ann (44), and Hanover (16).
Franklyn-Inexperienced highlighted the significance of aligning tutorial programmes with business wants to draw and retain college students at CMU. She additionally emphasised the function of increasing monetary support choices, fostering partnerships, and advocating for student-support insurance policies to higher put together graduates for the evolving job market.
The survey underscores CMU’s dedication to making sure that its graduates stay aggressive and able to meet the calls for of native and worldwide industries.
