TÜMA-Mezun TÜMA Graduate & Graduate-Field Studies

TÜMA-Mezun is a graduate satisfaction study in which graduates evaluate their education in light of their post-graduation life, work and career experience. Unlike satisfaction measured during studies, it offers a retrospective, experience-based assessment of how much value a university education produces after graduation.

Graduates' assessments cover the professional value of the education received, the competencies it conferred, its impact on their career, the continuity of their bond with the university, alumni services and their willingness to recommend the university. Rather than reducing graduate satisfaction to a single judgement, the different facets of post-graduation experience are made visible together.

The core contribution of graduate studies is that the effects of a university education can be assessed not only during studies but after graduation. This helps understand the relationship between graduates' education and professional lives, the usability of the competencies gained, and how their bond with the institution continues.

The target population consists of those who graduated from universities between 2016 and 2025; the first wave of the study is conducted on this cohort. Participants are reached via online survey links, and participation is voluntary.

Graduates evaluate after having experienced how the knowledge and skills gained at university translate into working life, how their education contributed to their professional position, and how their relationship with the university continued. The framework therefore focuses on post-graduation use value and institutional attachment alongside satisfaction. In addition to an overall satisfaction score, six graduate dimensions are reported.

Data is collected via online surveys. Graduates are reached through the survey link and respond individually. To protect data quality, duplicate participation, unusual response times, inconsistent answer patterns and missing data are checked. Only records meeting the quality criteria enter the analyses.

Results are reported for Overall Satisfaction and the Career Value, Skill Gain, Career Impact, Alumni Bond, Alumni Services and Recommendation dimensions. Each dimension makes visible a different aspect of universities' post-graduation relationships and graduate perceptions; Overall Satisfaction shows graduates' holistic assessment of their education.

Technical details of score calculation and reporting are explained in the annual technical report, so sample sizes, institutional inclusion conditions and year-specific information are presented transparently, separate from the fixed methodology.

TÜMA-Mezun Alan is the field/programme-based complementary section of the graduate study. Its aim is to make graduate satisfaction comparable not only at the university level but also across the academic fields graduates studied.

Programmes are assigned to field groups based on their curricula and professional orientation. The field-programme mapping rests on a predefined framework so that results are reported consistently and reproducibly. The detailed mapping list may be published separately in a technical annex or the annual report.

Only institutions producing sufficient, reliable data in a field enter its ranking. The minimum sample threshold and other inclusion conditions are set out in the annual technical report. When interpreting field results, note that the ranking reflects only the Overall Satisfaction of graduates in that field group, not all of a university's graduates.