What Do Graduates Do? 2002




First Degree Physics [2000]

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


Survey Response

Survey response [2000]
Men1379
Women 376
Total in survey 1755
Total number graduating 2079
% in survey 84.4%

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Destinations

destinations
a   In UK employment [for breakdown, see types of work below] 53.2%
b  In overseas employment 1.8%
c   Studying in the UK for a higher degree 27.5%
d   Studying in the UK for a diploma, certificate or professional qualification in teaching (including PGCE) 2.7%
e  Undertaking other further study or training in the UK 2.6%
f  Undertaking further study or training overseas 0.7%
g  Not available for employment, study or training 5.4%
h   Believed to be unemployed 5.6%
i   Seeking employment, study or training but not unemployed 0.5%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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Types of Work

Breakdown for category 'a' above: Physics graduates working in the UK [2000]
Men 742
Women 192
Total entered work in UK 934


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 2.0%
b   Commercial, industrial & public sector managers 8.9%
c   Scientific research, analysis & development occupations 10.4%
d  Engineering professionals 7.8%
e   Health professionals 0.1%
f  Teaching professionals 1.3%
g   Business & finance professionals 8.7%
h  Information technology professionals 22.4%
i   Nursing & health associate professionals 0.9%
j  Business & finance associate professionals 3.1%
k  Media, literary, design & sports professionals 3.4%
l  Other professional, associate professional & technical occupations
(click here for further breakdown of these occupations)		 5.9%
m   Numerical clerks & cashiers 2.0%
n  Other clerical & secretarial occupations 11.1%
o   Retail assistants, catering, waiting & bar staff 4.0%
p  Health & childcare related occupations 0.7%
q   Armed forces & public protection service occupations 0.6%
r   Other occupations 4.3%
s   Unknown occupations 2.4%
for a fuller description of these categories go here.

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