University of Á¢²©¹ÙÍø graduates under the age of 25 and available for full-time work have again achieved outstanding employment rates and high graduate salaries.
Graduate Careers Australia's Australian Graduate Survey 2007 released today December 11 reveals that University of Á¢²©¹ÙÍø graduates continued to be highly sought by employers.
In the national performance figures compiled by the Federal Government, the University had achieved a full-time employment rate for bachelor degree graduates for 2006 of 85.7 percent against the national full-time employment figure of 84.5 percent.
Over an extended period, the University has had 5 percent of its graduates recorded as unemployed and seeking full-time employment in the Graduate Destination Survey.
UQ graduates reported high full-time employment rates in fields such as civil engineering (100 percent); medicine (100 percent); mining engineering (100 percent); pharmacy (100 percent); urban/regional planning (100 percent); veterinary science (100 percent); rehabilitation (97.6 percent); and dentistry (95 percent).
The figures for UQ bachelor degree graduates in further full-time study represented 23.7 percent against a national figure of 20.0 percent.
UQ bachelor degree graduates in their first full-time employment (and under 25 years of age) reported median starting salaries of $43,000 for males and $41,000 for females.
Of those in their first full-time employment, the higher end salaries included geology, dentistry, mining engineering, medicine, physical sciences, chemical engineering, aeronautical engineering.
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