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What do graduates earn by subject?

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Across all first-degree graduates of GB higher education institutions, median earnings were £26,400 one year after graduating and £33,700 after five years (DfE LEO, 2023–24 tax year). Here are the highest five-year medians among our subject guides.

  1. Medicine£56,4005 years after graduating · £43,600 after 1 year
  2. Economics£51,2005 years after graduating · £30,700 after 1 year
  3. Electrical Engineering£44,6005 years after graduating · £33,700 after 1 year
  4. Pharmacy£43,9005 years after graduating · £27,100 after 1 year
  5. Physics£43,9005 years after graduating · £30,000 after 1 year
  6. Mathematics£43,6005 years after graduating · £29,600 after 1 year
  7. Mechanical Engineering£43,6005 years after graduating · £31,100 after 1 year
  8. Biomedical Science£42,5005 years after graduating · £24,500 after 1 year

Source: DfE Longitudinal Education Outcomes, CAH level 3 subject data. Medians describe past graduating cohorts, not your future salary. Criminology and International Relations have no separate DfE subject row, so their pages show no salary figure. How we use the data.

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Where do the numbers come from?

Salary and employment figures come from the Department for Education's Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) statistics for the 2023–24 tax year, used under the Open Government Licence. We copy published values without estimating gaps: where DfE publishes no figure, the page says so. HESA Graduate Outcomes survey data is not used.Read the methodology ordownload the data.

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