Graduate employment declines slightly in Türkiye: Official data
Around 73.9 percent of bachelor’s degree graduates in Türkiye were employed in 2025, marking a slight decline from the previous year, according to data released on July 23 by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).
The employment rate for university graduates with a bachelor’s degree fell from 75. percent in 2024 to 73.9 percent in 2025, the institute said.
Medicine remained the field with the highest graduate employment rate, with 95.5 percent of new doctors securing jobs shortly after completing their studies, beginning careers in hospitals.
On average, graduates of four-year university programs found their first job 14 months after graduation, the data showed.
