Graduate Outcomes Sector Analysis
- Katie Conroy
Some helpful links include:
Graduate Outcomes York Report (needs VPN connection)
What is Graduate Outcomes?
Graduate Outcomes is a survey carried out by HESA, sent to university leavers 15 months after they’ve completed their studies. The survey seeks to understand graduates’ employment status and how their studies have contributed to their destination.
More about the survey can be found on HESA’s Graduate Outcomes website.
Survey Analysis
SIA conducts analysis of York’s performance in the Graduate Outcomes Survey as well as sector wide analysis for benchmarking purposes.
Analysis of York’s performance is referred to as ‘Graduate Outcomes York’ and is published annually to the Tableau Server. It is based on answers to every question given by York graduates.
The sector analysis is conducted after Graduate Outcomes York is published and is based on data purchased from HESA (funded by the Careers department). The sector data purchased is not a comprehensive set of every answer to every question across the sector. Instead specific questions are selected in consultation with the careers team to allow for top level, longitudinal analysis of sector wide trends.
Sector Analysis workbook
The primary function of this workbook is to visualise York’s performance against different benchmark groups for several key metrics. These key metrics and their definitions are below:
Metric | Definition |
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Positive Destinations | Graduate destination defined by The Times as being positive (including further study and graduate jobs) |
Further Study | For example a Masters or conversion degree. |
Graduate Job / High skilled employment | A job at graduate level as defined by a combination of sic/soc codes. |
Self-employed |
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Unemployed |
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Both York and the benchmark group’s performance can be cut by department, year of graduation and student characteristics.
These characteristics are listed below:
Characteristic | Definition |
|---|---|
Domicile | Country of residence |
Age | Age of graduate at time of survey. This is categorised into five main age groups. |
Ethnicity | As defined by HESA |
Level of Study | Reports default to ‘First degree’ but can be filtered to other UG, PGT or PGR |
Mode of Study | Full time or part time |
State school marker | Privately funded or state funded secondary education |
HESA Classification | Degree awarded upon graduation (i.e. First, Upper Second) |
Data is suppressed for York where the response count is below 23 to retain respondent anonymity and ensure the reliability of percentages calculated.