Graduates from the University continue to be amongst the most highly sought after by the UK’s leading employers.
According to the annual Graduate Market in 2016 report prepared by High Fliers Research, Southampton is placed 17th amongst the country’s universities most often targeted by Britain’s top graduate employers. This puts Southampton firmly amongst the leading institutions to attract the largest number of top graduate recruiters for campus fairs, recruitment presentations or other local university promotions.
The Careers and Employability Service has seen a 57% increase in external exhibitors at careers fairs, 40 of those exhibitors featuring in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers (published in association with High Fliers Research).
Southampton Graduates have gone on to employment in a range of Top 100 Graduate Employers including Deloitte, Arup, Newtown Europe, Lloyd’s, BT and Jaguar Land Rover – all of whom have engaged in a variety of ways with Careers Service during the year.
According to the most recently published survey of Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) in the UK, some 93.9% of full-time undergraduates from Southampton who received their degrees in 2013/14, were in employment or progressed to further study within six months of graduating. The figure is up 1% from the previous year and reinforces Southampton’s commitment to providing the best possible environment at University for future employability.