FOI_25-203 Graduate outcomes

Date of response: 01 August 2025

We have now considered your request of 04 July 2025 for the following information:

Question 1. The total number of students who graduated each year, for the past five academic years (e.g., 2018/19 to 2022/23).

Our response

In line with Section 21 of the FOIA, the University is exempting from disclosure information that is already available via another means. Please find below links to where the responses for questions 1, 2 and 3 can be found.

The following table shows total graduate numbers and the number of known Graduate Outcomes by provider for all UK Higher Education providers for each of the cohorts in question. Table 5 - Response rates by provider

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-5

Question 2. The number of those graduates who secured employment (either part-time or full-time, excluding those solely in further study) within 6 months and/or 12 months of graduating, as captured by any graduate outcome surveys or tracking, for each of the same years.

Our response:

For all UK institutions this data is available via the HESA Graduate Outcomes open data repository. Table 6 - Graduate activities by provider

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-6

Question 3. If available, a breakdown of employment outcomes by degree subject or department.

Our response:

For all UK institutions this data is available via the HESA Graduate Outcomes open data repository. Table 28 - Graduate activities by provider and subject area of degree

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/graduates/table-28

Question 4. The average or median salary of graduates per subject area (or overall), if available.

Our response:

We estimate that to provide a response for all students across all disciplines would exceed 18 hours to collate and, as such, is exempt from disclosure under Section 12 of the FOIA.

In line with Section 16 of FOIA, authorities are required to provide advice and assistance to requesters in such circumstances; we have considered the data we hold and believe that should you be interested in a smaller subset of the data we may be able to collate this within the upper limit set by the Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004/3244. To reduce the scope of you request you may wish to limit which categories of students you would like to receive this information for. Are you interested in:

• Undergraduates, postgraduate taught, or postgraduate research

• UK students, EU nationals or international students,