The paper presents the results of a sample survey concerning the match of the curriculum offered by faculties and the skills necessary to a specialist in a certain field.
The sample survey is organised on the final year undergraduate students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. The questions included in the questionnaire aim to the measure and analyse the students’ opinion on the importance of the skills for a specialisation and the match between the curriculum and the skills formation corresponding to their specialisation. For data analysis we used the Multiple Response Analysis, the Principal Component Analysis, and the Multiple Correspondence Analysis. The data treatment is done with SPSS software.
The survey results show that, in the students’ opinion, all the skills assessed through questions are extremely important or important for a specialist’s formation. Based on the students’ opinion, we obtained a lower score for the level of inclusion of the skills in the curriculum than for the importance of the skills in the formation of a specialist. Moreover, there was noticed that the students’ opinion differs by the students’ profile identified by the average grade, their specialisation and age. The survey conclusions show that there is necessary to update the curriculum permanently.
Furthermore, in their opinion, the students noticed the dynamics of the specialisation. The highest score is obtained for Marketing and Applied Statistics specialisations, fields in which the demand for specialists is increasing. Students have comprehended the necessity of acquiring, during their studies, new instruments and procedures specific to the followed specialisation.
From the study, it results that more than 80% of the students become aware of the necessity of continuing their studies, in agreement with the dynamics of the knowledge society.

Keywords: skills, curriculum, sample survey, multivariate statistical analysis.