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What do Brunel graduates do?

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey provides a snapshot of graduate activity six months after completing their studies. When interpreting this data it is important to be aware that many students delay their job applications until graduating, preferring to focus on achieving the highest grade possible. Job search strategy is often about getting a ‘foot in the door' as a stepping stone into graduate level positions. Other graduates may initially continue with their part-time job while they explore their options after graduating.

Graduate destinations 2010-2011

First Degree Graduates – Home, Full-time and Sandwich Placement

Postgraduate – Home, Full-time 

Due to the high number of students in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care and the School of Sport and Education, a large proportion of Brunel graduates work in the public sector and as a result in 2010/1, the largest recruiters of our graduates were:

• Public Administration – 37 Brunel graduates were working in central and local government within local councils and the civil service.
• Education – 133 Brunel graduates were working in education (including eight at Brunel University)
• NHS – 108 Brunel graduates were working in hospitals and Primary Care Trusts
• Social Work – 56 Brunel graduates were working within social service departments.

This represents 22.5% of the graduate population.

Many other Brunel graduates went to work in commercial industry for large blue-chip multinational companies and in 2010/1 the other top recruiters of our graduates were:

• Apple
• Accenture
• Barclays Bank
• British Airways
• City Year
• Deloitte
• FDM
• IBM
• Jaguar Land Rover
• Lloyds TSB Bank
• Morgan Stanley
• Parexel International
• RBS
• Santander