What Do Graduates Do? 2002




First Degree Environmental Science & Other Physical Sciences [2000]

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


Survey Response

Survey response [2000]
Men1014
Women 886
Total in survey 1900
Total number graduating 2321
% in survey 81.9%

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Destinations

destinations
a   In UK employment [for breakdown, see types of work below] 61.1%
b  In overseas employment 2.6%
c   Studying in the UK for a higher degree 12.5%
d   Studying in the UK for a diploma, certificate or professional qualification in teaching (including PGCE) 4.3%
e  Undertaking other further study or training in the UK 2.8%
f  Undertaking further study or training overseas 0.3%
g  Not available for employment, study or training 6.9%
h   Believed to be unemployed 8.1%
i   Seeking employment, study or training but not unemployed 1.3%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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Types of Work

Breakdown for category 'a' above: Environmental science & other physical sciences graduates working in the UK [2000]
Men 607
Women 554
Total entered work in UK 1161


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 2.9%
b   Commercial, industrial & public sector managers 11.8%
c   Scientific research, analysis & development occupations 5.2%
d  Engineering professionals 2.2%
e   Health professionals 0.1%
f  Teaching professionals 2.1%
g   Business & finance professionals 1.5%
h  Information technology professionals 2.0%
i   Nursing & health associate professionals 2.0%
j  Business & finance associate professionals 2.0%
k  Media, literary, design & sports professionals 2.5%
l  Other professional, associate professional & technical occupations
(click here for further breakdown of these occupations)		 18.3%
m   Numerical clerks & cashiers 2.9%
n  Other clerical & secretarial occupations 20.2%
o   Retail assistants, catering, waiting & bar staff 9.4%
p  Health & childcare related occupations 1.9%
q   Armed forces & public protection service occupations 2.0%
r   Other occupations 9.6%
s   Unknown occupations 1.6%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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