What Do Graduates Do? 2002




First Degree Biology [2000]

[disciplines included in this subject]
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Survey response
Destinations
Types of work


Survey Response

Survey response [2000]
Men1262
Women 1891
Total in survey 3153
Total number graduating 3801
% in survey 83.0%

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Destinations

destinations
a   In UK employment [for breakdown, see types of work below] 54.5%
b  In overseas employment 2.8%
c   Studying in the UK for a higher degree 18.7%
d   Studying in the UK for a diploma, certificate or professional qualification in teaching (including PGCE) 5.8%
e  Undertaking other further study or training in the UK 3.9%
f  Undertaking further study or training overseas 0.8%
g  Not available for employment, study or training 7.3%
h   Believed to be unemployed 5.8%
i   Seeking employment, study or training but not unemployed 0.4%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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Types of Work

Breakdown for category 'a' above: Biology graduates working in the UK [2000]
Men 697
Women 1021
Total entered work in UK 1718


Types of work

[Categories which are less than or equal to 1% are added together to form the 'other' category in the chart above. These are not shown in bold in the table below.]

a   Marketing, sales, PR & advertising 3.7%
b   Commercial, industrial & public sector managers 12.7%
c   Scientific research, analysis & development occupations
(click here for further breakdown of these occupations)		 12.3%
d  Engineering professionals 1.6%
e   Health professionals 0.2%
f  Teaching professionals 1.4%
g   Business & finance professionals 3.1%
h  Information technology professionals 2.6%
i   Nursing & health associate professionals 1.4%
j  Business & finance associate professionals 2.5%
k  Media, literary, design & sports professionals 1.9%
l  Other professional, associate professional & technical occupations 14.0%
m   Numerical clerks & cashiers 3.8%
n  Other clerical & secretarial occupations 17.6%
o   Retail assistants, catering, waiting & bar staff 9.7%
p  Health & childcare related occupations 2.0%
q   Armed forces & public protection service occupations 0.7%
r   Other occupations 7.6%
s   Unknown occupations 1.3%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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