Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the average salary for a graduate from a Russell group university.

The Government recently published data from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset on graduate earnings up to 5 years after graduation. The data are available for each university split by degree subject studied and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-for-all-subjects-by-university.

Average earnings were not published for each institution as a whole as the overall earnings for an institution would be strongly influenced by the subject mix offered.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) have published an estimate of earnings based on a survey of graduates three and a half years after graduation. The median salary of Russell Group leavers was £29,500. The data can be found here:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/long-destinations-2010-11.