The government said Tuesday that 96.7 percent of March university graduates were employed as of April 1, the first day of the 2015 business year, up 2.3 percentage points from a year earlier and the fourth straight year of improvement.
The figures were based on a survey by the labor and education ministries covering 62 four-year universities across the country.
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