Last year鈥檚 architecture and building graduates enjoyed higher than average employment rates with 85.1% in work six months after leaving university. The overall rate for all graduates was 76.6%.
Only 5.3% of 2014 architecture and building graduates remained unemployed after six months, compared to 6.3% of all new graduates.
In 2010, 68% of architecture and building graduates were in work and 10.9% were unemployed six months after graduating.
The data comes from Prospects鈥� annual What do graduates do? research, published in partnership with the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), which reveals the destinations of 267,735 full- and part-time first degree graduates in January 2015 鈥� six months after they had left university. Of these, 5,830 had studied architecture and building.
Architecture and building graduates were most likely to go into professional-level work directly related to their degree, with 44.7% working as engineers, architects or surveyors, and 21.4% as architecture or town planning technicians.
The gender divide in building related degrees was least notable in architectural-related subjects where nearly 40% of all graduates were women.
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