The bar charts illustrate what postgraduate and undergraduate students in the UK did instead of going into full-time work after graduating in 2008.
Overall, the most popular option among graduates and postgraduates was further study, while the least popular option was to do voluntary work. Another noticeable feature is that the number of graduates in each category was significantly higher than that of postgraduates.
Further study was the most popular choice between both graduates and postgraduates. However, compared to 2,7325 postgraduates who chose further study, the number of graduates(29.665) was considerably higher. While further study was the most common choice, voluntary work was the least popular option among both graduate and postgraduate students. Voluntary work was chosen by 345 postgraduates and 3,500 graduates, whose number is almost ten times higher.
In terms of part-time work and unemployment, around 17,735 graduates selected part-time jobs, which was significantly higher than the 2,535 postgraduate students who selected part-time work. In addition, the number of unemployed graduate students was 16,235, while the figure of postgraduates(1.625) was almost ten times lower than the number of graduates.
