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Graduate Outcomes

Graduate Outcomes - a summary of the year five SOC coding assurance

This year’s summary report refers to results of the assessments that have taken place on the year five (C21072) dataset only. This is to ensure providers can quickly navigate to the detail relevant to the current year.

You can find further detail about the overall approach we take to quality assurance under Considerations - quality assurance, which has been reviewed and improved.

Note on interim further study in 2020/21

An issue has been identified with the classification of significant interim study in the 2020/21 open data release.

625 graduates who studied for further undergraduate diplomas or certificates after graduation have been incorrectly recorded as undertaking "No significant interim further study" in the XINSTUDY derived field.

The PREVTYPEQUAL field was updated in 2020/21 to remove code 06 "Other undergraduate diploma or certificate not specified above" and replace it with the following two codes:

Graduate Outcomes 2020/21: data and statistics

Results of the Graduate Outcomes survey - activities of graduates who obtained qualifications during the academic year 2020/21.

Welsh language research questions

In 2019/20, an error existed in two of the opt-in research questions for the Welsh language version of the Graduate Outcomes survey (