New graduate outcomes dashboard available
23 August 2023
An updated Sector Level Graduate Outcomes dashboard, with information about the career and further study destinations of graduates from institutions across the UK, is now available to all Reading staff.
The Careers team has launched the updated Graduate Outcomes sector-level dashboard, bringing together all the findings from four years’ worth of graduate outcomes surveys.
Recent graduates are surveyed around 15 months after they finish their course, to try and establish what activity they are doing, whether it is working, undertaking further study or running their own business. The University uses these results to advertise its courses and to recruit students in future years, but results are also used by the Office for Students in its regulatory work.
According to the data, Reading has increased its relative position (percentile score) against the sector this year, from 64th in 2019/20 to 67th in 2020/21. This is encouraging to see and suggests that the University is moving in the right direction after a slight drop in scores from 2018/19.
Scores for students in graduate level work and/or study are the highest they have been since the graduate outcomes survey began in 2017/18.
Analysis is provided at both Institution- and Subject-level, allowing for in-depth viewing. The dashboard contains data for the league table-eligible cohorts (UK-domiciled, full-time, first degree) from the 2017/18 to 2020/21 academic years and is intended to allow staff the ability to contextualise their scores, relative to other institutions.
The new dashboard follows the release of analysis of the outcomes of Reading graduates earlier this year.
How to use the dashboard
The Graduate Outcomes sector-level dashboard can be accessed by University staff. Advice on how to use the dashboard and use the data can be found in the file. The dashboard and the information it contains should not be shared outside of the University.
The dashboard contains data rounded and suppressed according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) methodology. Data from the 2018/19 Academic Year onwards will have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in one way or another and therefore comparisons across years should be taken in the context of the labour market at the time.
Please note: This dashboard is an interpretation of the data using methodology from the old graduate destination survey. HESA has a slightly different way of modelling the data and those interested can find out more from HESA’s Open Data release.
Colleagues can also view a short video for more information on Graduate Outcomes.
For further information please contact Louise Thomas-Burt, Acting Head of Careers Information and Data, or take a look at the Graduate Outcomes Teams channel.