Study an arts degree and you’ll be £50,000 worse off than others who graduate in more traditional subjects in the first five years of employment.
Such is the revelation from the annual UK graduate careers survey, published by High Fliers Research Ltd, which sounded the same warning for those who take a humanities degree.
Obtained by the Independent, the research shows only 27% of arts and humanities students expect to find a job after graduating – compared with 58% of engineering students.
Moreover, when they do find their first job, arts and humanities students can expect to start at £18,500 - compared with the graduate average of £21,700.
By the end of their first five years, their take-home pay is likely to rise to £32,500 a year – compared with at least £43,000 for graduates in law, business or IT.
May 9, 2007
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