U.K. students who graduated from worst-performing universities are 10 times more likely to be unemployed when compared to students who graduate from the country's prestigious universities, according to figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency
The new figures show that a fifth of the graduates from Britain's least performing universities are without a job. The findings state that employment is directly linked to the university and degree courses students chose while pursuing their education.
Those students that left Derby and Northampton universities were either working or studying. Around 96.1 percent of Derby graduates and 95.7 per cent of Northampton were employed when compared to 94.9 per cent at Cambridge and 92 per cent at Oxford.
The recent statistics reveal that 22.6 per cent of students from London South Bank University were jobless; 20.6 per cent at East London University and 18.9 per cent at Bolton.
Other colleges and universities that recorded over 15 percent unemployment rate are Middlesex, London Metropolitan, London's University of the Arts, Goldsmiths College, Teesside, Greenwich, Buckinghamshire New, Staffordshire, Westminster, West of Scotland and Kingston.
On the other hand, some of the leading universities reported remarkable figures. For example, all Royal Academy of Music graduates were employed or they were pursuing their further studies; 98.9 per cent at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and 98.2 per cent at the School of Pharmacy.
The highest employment rates were observed at Robert Gordon in Aberdeen, where just 2.3 per cent of students were jobless.
Highlighting the relationship between the course and the employment, the figures disclose about 99.3 per cent of medicine, dentistry and veterinary science graduates found jobs in comparison to just 87 per cent from media studies, journalism, film studies and information management.
