On November 30^th and December 1^st, 289.408 youngsters took the famous PSU (University Selection Test), the highest number of candidates since the test was created.

The Ministry of Education’s website, MiFuturo, developed a ranking of the degrees that have better chances of jobs’ placement upon graduation.

Technical degrees are offered in the Centres of Technical Training, Professional Institutes or Universities. The top five technical degrees were: Technician in Industrial Maintenance, Technician in Logistics, Technician in Foreign Trade, Technician in Electricity and Technician in Industrial Instrumentation, Automation and Control. Each of these degrees has a 90% or higher level of job placement upon the first of graduation.

College degrees are exclusively offered in universities. The top five college degrees in the ranking are: Obstetrics, Nursery, Mining Civil Engineering, Geology and Electric Civil Engineering. Each of these degrees has a 95% chance of getting a job during the first year upon graduation.

Such high percentages show an excellent employability rate, which is the gap between the skills a degree provides and the ones the labour market demands.

In Chile there are two college graduates for every technician. There is an important deficit of professional technicians.

There are 60 colleges in the country that educate over 707.000 students.

Among the technical degrees with higher incomes the one on Industrial Instrumentation, Automation and control leads the ranking with an average income of USD 1.785.

Among college degrees, Mining Civil Engineering is the one with the highest income, around USD 5.700 by the fourth year of graduation.

Source: T13