Avaliação de egressos: Contribuição de um mestrado profissional em administração para a trajetória dos ex-alunos titulados

Abstract

The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) highlights, in the “education” aspect of the document “Evaluation Form for Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Programs” in area 27 - Public and Business Administration, Accounting and Tourism Sciences, that one of the ways to point out the influence of the program on the training of students is to report the professional path of Master degree graduates. The objective of this thesis was to provide a historical overview of the professional profile of graduated students, with Master degree, from the Professional Master Degree in Administration at Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado (FECAP), as a way of highlighting the contribution of this program in the training of 200 graduates, graduated between years 2013 and 2022, considering the first class started in the second half of 2011. This is a descriptive, qualitative-quantity research, in which it was evaluated, through consultation of data collected at the LinkedIn Platform, and the answers provided by the closed question questionnaire, course program information of its graduates. From the total population of graduated alumni, 181 were found at the pages of social/professional network LinkedIn, 90.50%; and 95 graduated alumni, representing 52.49% of the total sample, answered the survey. The results showed that the Masters at Professional Administration from FECAP are mostly men, with increasing participation of women, graduates aged between 30 and 39 years; and duration of the course between 25 and 34 months. Regarding the professional path, there is a predominance at private companies, in management positions, with a performance increase towards senior management and owner positions; there is also an income rise after getting the Master degree, especially for the bracket above R$ 30,000.00, as well as a strong link at the employment market, in addition to considerable engagement within teaching/education activities.