BRADFORD GRADUATES REMAIN HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE, LATEST FIGURES REVEAL

The first official league tables of the employment record of universities have revealed graduates from the University remain amongst the most employable in the country.

The performance indicators - from the Higher Education Funding Council - showed that 96 per cent of last year's students have found work or have gone into further study.

The University performed better than its benchmark, which was 95 per cent. The results produced a similar figure when further study was excluded. In this case 95 per cent of students who obtained first degrees from full-time courses last summer were employed. Its benchmark in this case was 93 per cent.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Colin Bell, said: "Our graduates are very determined to do well and this is reflected in the results. I am pleased to see so many of our students found employment so soon after graduating. We hope that these figures will continue to improve in the future."

The results show that our graduates fared better than Oxford graduates, of which 95 per cent found work, Leeds Metropolitan (91 per cent), Huddersfield (91 per cent), Lincolnshire and Humberside (92 per cent), Sheffield (95 per cent) and Sheffield Hallam (95 per cent).

Other universities which achieved 96 per cent included the universities of Reading, York, Edinburgh and Manchester, and the College of Ripon & York St John.

The figures looked at graduates on January 3 2001 - six months after leaving university.

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