UK university graduate outcomes
Earnings percentiles, sustained-employment rates, and the industries graduates go into, cross-referenced with the Home Office register of licensed visa sponsors in each university’s city.
Across the 30 universities tracked here, graduates earn a typical median of £34,250 five years after leaving (excluding medicine), and 80.0% are in sustained employment within a year. If you’re an international student, each profile links to the licensed visa sponsors hiring in that field.
About the “LEO 2025 release”
The Department for Education’s Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset links graduate tax records to HMRC, DWP, and Student Loans Company data. The 2025 release (the latest) reports outcomes measured in the 2023/24 tax year, at 1, 3, and 5 years after graduation. So a “5-year” figure here describes graduates who left university in 2017/18. Earnings data lags the academic year by around six years because HMRC filings need to settle and DfE needs to link records across agencies.
International-student headcount comes from HESA 2024/25 (published Jan 2026) and is a separate, more recent dataset.
| City | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #126k | University College London | London | £41,000 | 83.1% | Law |
| #220k | University of Manchester | Manchester | £35,500 | 76.6% | Computing |
| #318k | University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | £37,000 | 82.5% | Law |
| #417k | King's College London | London | £39,000 | 84.8% | Computing |
| #517k | Coventry University | Coventry | £29,000 | 78.2% | Law |
| #615k | University of Glasgow | Glasgow | £34,500 | 81.3% | Computing |
| #714k | University of Leeds | Leeds | £34,500 | 82.5% | Engineering and technology |
| #813k | University of Oxford | Oxford | £47,500 | 81.1% | Computing |
| #913k | University of Birmingham | Birmingham | £34,000 | 82.5% | Engineering and technology |
| #1012k | University of Warwick | Coventry | £40,500 | 81.8% | Computing |
| #1112k | University of Sheffield | Sheffield | £32,500 | 77.5% | Computing |
| #1212k | University of Nottingham | Nottingham | £33,500 | 80.3% | Law |
| #1311k | Imperial College London | London | £46,000 | 81.9% | Law |
| #1411k | University of Cambridge | Cambridge | £47,000 | 79.7% | Law |
| #1511k | University of Southampton | Southampton | £32,500 | 81.8% | Law |
| #1610k | Queen Mary University of London | London | £35,500 | 82.8% | Engineering and technology |
| #1710k | University of Liverpool | Liverpool | £32,500 | 78.4% | Computing |
| #189.0k | University of Bristol | Bristol | £36,500 | 81.3% | Law |
| #199.0k | The London School of Economics and Political Science | London | £50,000 | 83.7% | Computing |
| #208.5k | Durham University | Durham | £37,500 | 81.4% | Computing |
| #218.5k | Newcastle University | Newcastle upon Tyne | £32,000 | 76.0% | Engineering and technology |
| #228.0k | Cardiff University | Cardiff | £32,000 | 80.2% | Engineering and technology |
| #237.5k | University of Exeter | Exeter | £33,500 | 77.2% | Computing |
| #247.0k | University of York | York | £33,500 | 77.8% | Computing |
| #256.5k | University of Leicester | Leicester | £31,000 | 76.5% | Computing |
| #266.5k | Lancaster University | Lancaster | £34,000 | 75.7% | Computing |
| #276.5k | University of Bath | Bath | £38,500 | 76.2% | Computing |
| #286.0k | University of Sussex | Brighton | £32,000 | 78.5% | Computing |
| #296.0k | University of Reading | Reading | £32,000 | 78.7% | Computing |
| #306.0k | Aston University | Birmingham | £32,000 | 78.2% | Engineering and technology |
- London
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £41,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 83.1%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- Manchester
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £35,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 76.6%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Edinburgh
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £37,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 82.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- London
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £39,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 84.8%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Coventry University#517kCoventry
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £29,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 78.2%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- Glasgow
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £34,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.3%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Leeds#714kLeeds
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £34,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 82.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
- University of Oxford#813kOxford
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £47,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.1%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Birmingham
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £34,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 82.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
- University of Warwick#1012kCoventry
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £40,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.8%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Sheffield#1112kSheffield
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 77.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Nottingham#1212kNottingham
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £33,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 80.3%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- Imperial College London#1311kLondon
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £46,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.9%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- University of Cambridge#1411kCambridge
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £47,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 79.7%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- Southampton
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.8%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- London
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £35,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 82.8%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
- University of Liverpool#1710kLiverpool
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 78.4%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Bristol#189.0kBristol
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £36,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.3%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Law
- London
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £50,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 83.7%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Durham University#208.5kDurham
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £37,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 81.4%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Newcastle University#218.5kNewcastle upon Tyne
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 76.0%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
- Cardiff University#228.0kCardiff
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 80.2%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
- University of Exeter#237.5kExeter
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £33,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 77.2%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of York#247.0kYork
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £33,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 77.8%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Leicester#256.5kLeicester
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £31,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 76.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Lancaster University#266.5kLancaster
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £34,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 75.7%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Bath#276.5kBath
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £38,500
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 76.2%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Sussex#286.0kBrighton
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 78.5%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- University of Reading#296.0kReading
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 78.7%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Computing
- Aston University#306.0kBirmingham
- Median 5y (ex-medicine)
- £32,000
- Sustained emp. (1y)
- 78.2%
- Top subject (ex-medicine)
- Engineering and technology
The “#rank · N” badge is each university’s international-student headcount (HESA 2024/25) and its position in that headcount league, not a prestige ranking. “Median 5y (ex-medicine)” is the median-of-medians across each provider’s subjects, excluding medicine & dentistry (which dominates earnings at every UK provider via NHS pay bands). Sort by any column header, or the “Sort by” menu on mobile. “—” means DfE suppressed the cell for small graduate counts.
All UK universities
139 universities with a student-data profile. The 30 in the table above also carry DfE LEO graduate-earnings data; the rest have HESA international-student trends.
- AA School of Architecture
- Aberystwyth University
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Aston University
- Bangor University
- Bath Spa University
- Birkbeck College
- Birmingham City University
- Bloomsbury Institute
- Bournemouth University
- BPP University
- Brunel University London
- Buckinghamshire New University
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Cardiff University
- CEG UFP Limited
- City St George's, University of London
- Coventry University
- Cranfield University
- De Montfort University
- Durham University
- Edge Hill University
- Edinburgh Napier University
- ESCP Europe Business School
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Glasgow School of Art
- Goldsmiths College
- Heriot-Watt University
- Hult International Business School Ltd
- Imperial College London
- Institute of Education
- Istituto Marangoni Limited
- Kaplan International Colleges U.K. Limited
- Keele University
- King's College London
- Kingston University
- Lancaster University
- Leeds Beckett University
- Liverpool John Moores University
- London Business School
- London Metropolitan University
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- London South Bank University
- Loughborough University
- Middlesex University
- Newcastle University
- Oxford Brookes University
- Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
- Queen Mary University of London
- Queen's University Belfast
- Ravensbourne University London
- Regent College London
- Regent's University London
- Regent's University London Limited
- Richmond, The American International University in London
- Robert Gordon University
- Roehampton University
- Royal College of Art
- Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Sheffield Hallam University
- SOAS University of London
- Southampton Solent University
- St Mary's University, Twickenham
- Study Group
- Swansea University
- Teesside University
- The Arts University Bournemouth
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
- The Manchester Metropolitan University
- The Nottingham Trent University
- The Royal Veterinary College
- The University of Aberdeen
- The University of Bradford
- The University of Brighton
- The University of Buckingham
- The University of Dundee
- The University of East Anglia
- The University of East London
- The University of Essex
- The University of Greenwich
- The University of Huddersfield
- The University of Hull
- The University of Kent
- The University of Law
- The University of Lincoln
- The University of Northampton
- The University of Portsmouth
- The University of Salford
- The University of St. Andrews
- The University of Stirling
- The University of Strathclyde
- The University of Sunderland
- The University of Surrey
- The University of the West of Scotland
- The University of West London
- The University of Westminster
- The University of Wolverhampton
- Ulster University
- University College Birmingham
- University College London
- University for the Creative Arts
- University of Bath
- University of Bedfordshire
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chester
- University of Derby
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Gloucestershire
- University of Greater Manchester
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Lancashire
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Liverpool
- University of Manchester
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- University of Nottingham
- University of Oxford
- University of Plymouth
- University of Reading
- University of Sheffield
- University of South Wales
- University of Southampton
- University of Staffordshire
- University of Suffolk
- University of Sussex
- University of the Arts, London
- University of the West of England, Bristol
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- University of Warwick
- University of Worcester
- University of York
- Wrexham University
- York St John University