Specified first destination of undergraduate students by subject, 1995/96
Area of study % unemployed
Medicine & Dentistry 0.2%
Veterinary Science 1.1%
Law 3.8%
Subjects Allied to Medicine 3.8%
Education 5.6%
Engineering and Technology 6.7%
Computer Science 6.9%
Business and Administrative Studies 6.9%
Architecture, Building and Planning 7.1%
Mathematical Sciences 7.1%
Agriculture & Related Subjects 7.2%
Languages 7.2%
Humanities 8.2%
Biological Sciences 8.4%
Physical Sciences 8.4%
Social, Economic and Political Studies 8.4%
Combined 9.0%
Librarianship and Information Science 10.8%
Creative Arts & Design 11.2%
Average 7.3%
The table, compiled by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, is based on: 256,900 respondents out of a potential 310,970, a response rate of 82.7 per cent. The 17.3 per cent who were non-respondents were likely to be selfselected, which introduces an element of bias.