Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students have not secured graduate employment five years after graduating by higher education institution.

The department publishes statistics on the employment and earnings outcomes of graduates one, 3, 5 and 10 years after graduation from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.

Employment and earnings outcomes for the higher education sector as a whole were published in March 2018 as part of ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016.

Outcomes by institution and subject were published in June 2018 as part of ‘Graduate Outcomes (LEO): Subject by Provider, 2015 to 2016’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo-subject-by-provider-2015-to-2016.

In addition to these, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the occupations of higher education leavers at 6 months and three-and-a-half-years after graduation. The occupations data are collected in HESA’s Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education surveys. Graduates categorised as being in Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) groups one to three[1] are considered to be in ‘Professional Employment’. Information by subject is published at the links below.

Occupation of leavers six months after graduation (see Figure 9):

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/28-06-2018/sfr250-higher-education-leaver-statistics-subjects.

Occupation of leavers three and a half years after graduation (see Table 9):

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/long-destinations-2012-13/employment.

[1] SOC groups one to three are ‘Managers, directors and senior officials’, ‘Professional occupations’ and ‘Associate professional and technical occupations’ respectively.