Unemployment rates of new graduates are highest among law and computer science students, official data shows.
Just five per cent of British graduates of the two subjects were unemployed 15 months after graduating, according to figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa).
Overall, nearly one in ten graduates of some universities are still unemployed 15 months after leaving higher education.
Of young people leaving full-time undergraduate courses in the summer of 2018, around 4 per cent were out of work more than a year after leaving university which rises to ten per cent at some institutions.
London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) had the highest proportion (9 per cent) of graduates out of work after leaving full-time courses, once significant interim study was excluded.
The survey, which looked at