Graduation Related Concerns: Albanian Students and University Studies

Abstract

Although a significant number of young people continue to leave our country in search of a better future, Albania continues to be a country with a relatively young population. Albanian youth faces a lot of challenges in their way to build their future. Unemployment is a complex social issue that is associated with a number of other social phenomena, which make the situation/position, especially of young people, even more disadvantaged. Young people, found in such a situation, where jobs are scarce and their skills or preparation does not help or facilitate to find a job, face the dilemma of staying or moving elsewhere for a better future. Because of the force with which these issues strike and affect the lives and opportunities for young people, young people prefer to leave and it seems the provision of material goods is becoming the mainly impetus for young people nowadays.Beside gathering and exploring the literature, reports and data related to the paper, 50 open questions interviews were conducted with bachelor students, respectively 25 students from University of “Aleksander Moisiu”, Durres, 25 students from University of Tirana. As the survey data shows, what young people express a kind of concern that their education will not bring the expected improvement of their future. Measures need to be taken to improve this situation, which can only be achieved through the commitment and involvement of all actors to bring a change and improvement of a situation that is alarming to our entire society.