Research and analysis

Undergraduate degrees: relative labour market returns

Analysis of the relative economic value of different degrees, as measured by graduates’ earnings and employment rates.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 7 June 2018
• Last updated: 7 June 2018
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  1. 7 June 2018

     Correction: 'women' changed to ‘men’ in the title of appendix data tables 1b and 6b.

  2. 7 June 2018

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

The relative labour market returns to different degrees

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-912-8, DFE-RR787

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The relative labour market returns to different degrees - appendix data tables

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Details

This research looks at over 1,200 courses offered across UK universities.

It uses the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset for the first time to take into account background characteristics such as:

• class
• ethnicity
• GCSE results

This is to estimate the relative earnings return from different university courses.