Subject areas for getting a job revealed
Which university subject areas give you to best chance of gaining work? The best and worst have been revealed, with one subject giving graduates just a one in two chance of getting a job.
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The best and worst university subjects for gaining work have been revealed, and one subject gives its graduates just a one in two chance of getting a job.
Full-time employment for Australian graduates has fallen by more than 12 per cent in the decade since the Global Financial Crisis, the Graduates Outcomes Survey shows.
General degrees gave students the worst chance of getting a full-time job, including the creative arts (52 per cent), tourism (60 per cent) and hospitality (60 per cent).
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The highest rates of employment were for vocationally specific study, such as pharmacy (97 per cent), medicine (95 per cent), rehabilitation (89 per cent) and dentistry (87 per cent).
The survey’s results show the number of undergraduates getting work went up half a per cent in a year, to 87 per cent.
Meanwhile, the number of graduates in part-time work is falling — from 37.9 per cent last year to 37.3 per cent this year.
Three in four university students were in full-time work after graduating last year — earning $61,000 a year — while 87.2 per cent overall were in some form of employment.
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan said students who received university offers “should see it as an incredible opportunity and a stepping stone to realising their ambitions”.
Victorian university offers come out on Wednesday.
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BEST AND WORST UNI SUBJECTS FOR GAINING WORK
BEST
■ Pharmacy
■ Medicine
■ Rehabilitation
■ Dentistry
WORST
■ Creative arts
■ Tourism
■ Hospitality
■ Personal Services
■ Sport and recreation
■ Communications
■ Psychology and Humanities
■ Culture and social sciences
(Sourced from the 2018 Graduate Outcome Survey)
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