Employability and Performance of Islamic Studies Graduates in UniSHAMS

Abstract

Employability is an important key performance indicator for high education institutional. UniSHAMS as a new high education private university struggle to faced high competitive challenge in education industries with other well established IPTS and IPTA in Malaysia. The aims of this study is to assess the employability of KUIN graduates who graduates in 2016 by examining the level of employability, job position and government fund of KUIN’s graduates from Islamic studies studies from 2016 across all sectors in private and public sectors of all industry across Malaysia and to identify the level of employability, job position and government fund of KUIN’s graduates towards their achievement in education throughout the years (CGPA). The results show that the most of the UniSHAMS graduate prefer to work in Profesional-Education Services and self-employed. Almost 52% graduates employed as full time workers compare to 32% work as a part time workers. In order to compete UniSHAMS need to improve the current of program offer by upgrading them to suit with The Industrial Revolution 4.0 introduce by the Ministry of education such as double degree program, twining program with other international universities and join venture education program with industries