Engineering's not so bad...

A paper released by EngineeringUK finds engineering and technology graduates to be highly employable, with 94.3% in work three years after graduation, second only to medicine and dentistry. The paper finds that the median salary for engineering and technology graduates three years on is £28,000.

The paper, entitled, 'Where Do Engineering Graduates Go?' reveals that one third of engineering and technology applications in 2007/08 were from non-UK domiciled students, up five percentage points since 2001/02 when 28% of applicants were from non-UK domiciles. This is about double the proportion of overseas applicants across all subjects, with the average being 15%.

This long term rising trend of increasing engineering applications from outside the UK is particularly prominent at higher degree level, where only 27.2% are UK domiciled compared to 44.9 % across all subjects.