Graduate employment last year was disrupted by the pandemic – but by mid-ear it looked like employment as usual-ish

The Graduate Outcomes Survey (from the Social Research Centre) finds that by May ’21 FT employment of recent graduates was at 72 per cent, close to the 2019 comparison – although the SRC points out May was before the latest lockdowns.

As usual, new graduates with generalist degrees, in HASS and creative arts for example, can take longer to get a career start while pharmacists, medical doctors and vets had highest rates for FT work.

Perhaps reflecting hard employment times, just over 21 per cent of 21 UG completers were in further study six months later, 2.5 per cent more than in ’20.