What do graduates do?

Research from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit found out the following:

• 43% of graduates started work for a small company, with 28% working for firms with less than 50 employee
• 1/5 started work in London, where 35% of jobs are at graduate level, compared to 26% nationally
• A survey of 202 major employers found that they were increasing their vacancies by 10.2% this year, with big increases in IT, telecoms, utilities, banking and accountancy. However, jobs in law and investment banking are harder to find.
•  There were 314,635 new UK domiciled graduates last year, 74% were working after 6m, 8.5% were unemployed and 13% were undertaking further study
• A study of 2008/9 graduates 3.5 years after leaving university found that 80% were working, 8.1% were studying full time, 5.1% were combining study with work and 3.4% were unemployed.