Healthy employment prospects for Graduates

The latest edition of What do graduates do? reveals that the graduate labour market in 2016 was in relatively good health. Of the 248,525 UK-domiciled first-degree graduates who responded to the survey: 

• 74.2% of graduates were in employment six months after graduating. 
• Only 5.3% were unemployed - the lowest rate since 1989. 
• 71.3% of employed graduates were in a professional-level job. 
• 21% of graduates went on to full or part-time further study. 
• The average salary for graduates in full-time employment in the UK was £21,776.