Guess we all should’ve gone to Imperial
Tragically, uni doesn’t last forever, and once you’ve made it through three years of non-stop hangovers, you will actually need to get a job and function as an adult in the real world. The Daily Mail’s UK uni rankings have included data on which unis will get you the most high-skilled grad job. If the thought of returning to your underpaid and overly stressful customer service job after uni makes you feel physically nauseous, then read on! These are the best 10 unis for getting high-skilled grad jobs 15 months after graduating in 2024.
The Daily Mail figured this out by asking 382,000 graduates who left these unis 15 months ago whether they were in a high skilled job, and whether they felt their career was on track. The Daily Mail defines a high skilled job as “managers, directors and senior officials; professional occupations; and associate professional occupations.” So basically, the kind of jobs that your parents promised you would get if you bothered to go to uni.
It’s bad news for the humanities girlies – there are a lot of STEM-orientated unis on this list. Imperial College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and St George’s all make the top ten.
The University of Bath, St George’s and Loughborough are the only non-Russell Group unis to make it onto the list. People clearly need to care a bit less about getting into Oxbridge, because the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford are only in fourth and fifth places respectively.
Imperial College London wins for being the best of the UK unis for getting top grad jobs. A massive 96.3 per cent of Imperial grads get high-skilled jobs. Imperial also boasts the highest grad salaries. According to The Daily Mail, Imperial ex-students earn an average of £37,000 15 months after graduating.
So, here is the percentage of grads that get high-skilled jobs at different UK unis, ordered from most to least:
10. King’s College London – 73.5 per cent
=8. University of Warwick – 84.8 per cent
=8. Loughborough University – 84.8 per cent
7. St George’s, University of London – 87.2 per cent
6. University College London (UCL) – 87.5 per cent
Oxford students can still be smug that their city is so pretty, even if they don’t all get high-skilled jobs
5. University of Oxford – 88.7 per cent
4. University of Cambridge – 89.5 per cent
3. University of Bath – 90.5 per cent
2. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – 94.1 per cent
1. Imperial College London – 96.3 per cent