The charts illustrate the employment patterns of UK graduate and postgraduate students who left college in 2008 but did not enter the workforce full-time.
Overall, the majority of both graduates and postgraduates opted for further education, while the lowest number of them decided to engage in voluntary work. Another noticeable feature is that the former significantly surpassed the latter.
The proportion of those the majority of graduates (29,665), who chose to pursue further studies rather than take a full-time job was the largest share in the figure. By contrast, the least frequent graduate destination was voluntary work, with only 3,500 graduates having engaged in it. The numbers of people who were unemployed and those who worked part-time were similar, at 16,235 and 17,735, respectively.
Among postgraduates, the largest group consisted of 2,725 individuals who pursued higher education, while the smallest group consisted of 345 volunteers. However, a far higher proportion of postgraduates, at 2,535, worked part-time than experienced unemployment, at 1,625.