The bar charts compare how university students, who did not opt for full-time employment, continued their career after college in the UK in 2008.
It is clear that studying further was the most popular option for both graduates and postgraduates in the given year. Notably, the number of graduates was much higher than the number of postgraduates.
Looking at the details, although continuing education was the most popular choice among both categories of students, the number of graduates choosing this way of career was more than 10 times the number of postgraduates. The number of postgraduates choosing part-time work (2,535) was relatively close to those opting for further study (2,725), while the number of graduates preferring to work part-time was almost 10,000 less than that of further education.
A similar trend can be observed for students choosing voluntary work, as well as unemployment. Approximately 16,000 graduates stayed unemployed, while the number of their postgraduate counterparts was 10 times lower. Voluntary work was the least preferred option among the students, with 3,500 graduates and 345 postgraduates.
