A little more than 63 percent of university students who will graduate next spring had landed a job offer as of Oct. 1, up 3.2 percentage points from a year earlier, a government survey released Tuesday shows.

It was the second rise in two years and possibly signals a recovery from the low point following the 2008 global financial crisis.

But the figure of 63.1 percent is still more than 6 percentage points lower than in 2007, with about 157,000 prospective graduates believed to be still without job offers, according to the joint survey by the education and labor ministries.