What do postgraduates do?

Information on the destinations of postgraduates from Masters degree courses who graduated in 2005, six months after they gained their qualifications.

This might help you understand the opportunities offered by studying for a postgraduate degree, and allows you to see how many graduates go onto further study or into work, and what kinds of jobs they go into.

Masters degree sections

• What do Masters graduates do? 2007 - overview information about the destinations of graduates from all Masters degrees from 2005
• Masters graduates - arts and humanities
• Masters graduates - business studies
• Masters graduates - social sciences
• Masters graduates - physical sciences, maths and IT
• Masters graduates - biomedical sciences
• Masters graduates - biological sciences
• Masters graduates - engineering and building

Further information

• An overview of the graduate job market
• Salary and vacancy FAQs for answers to some common questions on graduate employment
• What do graduates do? - six months after graduation
• What did Masters graduates from 2004 do? - information about the previous year's masters graduates
• What do PhDs do? - publications looking at the destinations of PhD graduates, developed by HECSU and UK Grad.
• What do PGCE graduates do? - information about the destinations of PGCE graduates from 2003

Source of data

All raw data is taken from the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education (DLHE) 2003/4 survey from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, HESA.

HESA cannot accept responsibility for any conclusions or inferences derived from the data by third parties.

For futher information on the data, please visit Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

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