About what do graduates do

Source of data

Each year, careers advisers at every university and college in the UK contact graduates and diplomates six months after course completion to find out what they are doing. The results of this 'First Destination Survey' are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). What Do Graduates Do? is based on HESA's results. It is published by The Higher Education Careers Services Unit (CSU) in association with The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

Acknowledgments

What Do Graduates Do? was written by the following members of CSU and the Education Liaison Sub-Committee of AGCAS:

KIRSTY ROTHWELL (joint AGCAS editor, with specific responsibility for Business and Administrative Studies and the Myths about Graduate Recruitment article) University of Liverpool

PETER FANTOM (joint AGCAS editor with specific responsibility for Science and the Myths about Graduate Recruitment article) University of Aberdeen

KATE OWEN (joint CSU editor responsible for the production of the statistics and the Where Do They Come From? article) CSU

PEARL MOK (joint CSU editor responsible for the Graduate Labour Market article) CSU

FIONA CHRISTIE (responsible for Engineering and Building Management and the Going the Extra Mile - Start Now to Get Ahead of the Crowd article) University of Manchester and UMIST

DOMINIC LAING (responsible for Social Sciences) University of Sheffield

DAVID GEE (responsible for Mathematics & IT) University of the West of England

SEAN RUSSELL (chair and co-ordinator of the education liaison sub-committee and responsible for Arts & Humanities) University of Bristol

JUDITH DONE (responsible for HND) Chester College of Higher Education

Additional thanks go to those AGCAS colleagues and careers services who kindly provided information for this publication. We regret that it has not been possible to thank them individually.

Thanks also to Chris Hicks and Ruth Eaton from CSU who helped produce this edition.

Comments or questions about this publication should be directed to:

Peter Fantom, Editor, Careers Service, 48, College Bounds, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UX or Kirsty Rothwell, Editor, Centre for Careers and Academic Practice, University of Liverpool L69 3JD

ISBN: 1 84016 093 4

© Graduate Prospects Ltd/AGCAS 2002. Material from this document may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes provided What do graduates do? is acknowledged. If material is required for commercial use, please contact CSU in the first instance.

Some of the case studies are based on profiles featured in the Prospects Series, with kind permission from the publishers.

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