According to The Sunday Times league table of graduate salaries, computer scientists from Oxford earn an average of £43,895 six months after graduating, which is almost four times that of graduates in drama, dance and cinematics from Essex, the lowest earners on £11,963. Computer science graduates from Imperial and Cambridge are also in the top 10. Professor Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University, said, “For parents, computer science has this image that it’s a bit geeky but this is a caricature, computers are the future and computer science courses command a salary premium.” Professor Michael Wooldridge, head of the computer science at Oxford, said his course gave graduates an “uncompromising insistence on mathematical clarity. Ultimately, our students are trained to think clearly, rigorously, and deeply about complex problems.”
The analysis shows the growing earnings gap between the highest and lowest-earning graduates and found that 1:10 had not secured employment six months after graduation and a third were in jobs that did not require a degree. The choice of university was vital, with wide variation in earnings within subjects. For example, graduates in accounting and finance from Huddersfield earned an average of £16,335 while those who studied the subject at Bath earned £29,588. Chemical engineering graduates from Aston earned £24,233 compared to £36,219 for those from Aberdeen.
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