Employment prospects for Earth science graduates

With geoscience-related levels seeing a decline in candidates, George Jameson (Range and Inclusion Challenge Lead) discusses the worth of additional training in Earth science graduate outcomes.

For a while, now we have puzzled about how helpful or helpful acquiring a level within the Earth sciences may be for these graduating in the UK. This query has change into extra urgent in recent times. Potential college students need to understand how helpful a level is and what potential profession paths await them as they enter the workforce ought to they select to review it.

It was time that we appeared into the proof with the intention to attempt reply this query.

We started our proof gathering by reaching out and getting in contact with all universities within the UK who award Earth science levels. We all know that this data is collected by universities and had assumed that the majority could be comfortable to assist us with this venture. Sadly, this method was not as fruitful as we had anticipated. Though some had been comfortable to share the knowledge, many weren’t. In reality, too many for us to have the ability to draw worthwhile conclusions from.

With the info now out there to us, we might lastly interrogate it and see what we are able to be taught and share with the neighborhood. You may entry the full report by clicking the hyperlink.  

There have been some limitations for us, particularly when attempting to reply our most important query.

• The info doesn’t explicitly point out {that a} graduate is in related graduate employment as a direct results of their diploma. Somewhat, now we have relied on the place graduates indicated that their diploma was crucial (required or advantageous) in securing their present job.
• Sharing low numbers is just not permitted by HESA, which means that we needed to suppress that data in order that explains the cases of the * image all through.

In whole 5980, graduates submitted their data throughout the 3-year interval. This contains totally and partially accomplished surveys. Of which, 2415 had been feminine (40%) and 3563 had been male (60%).

The report breaks down the outcomes of every educational yr into the proportion of graduates in some type of employment following commencement (1,329 college students). Of this quantity, 67% acknowledged that their diploma was crucial (both required or advantageous) in securing their job.

The 67% of employed graduates who acknowledged their diploma was crucial to acquire their job are damaged down additional by ranges of instructional attainment within the tables under. This knowledge means that graduates with larger ranges of instructional attainment usually tend to utilise their qualification to acquire employment, with a better share of postgraduates stating their diploma as a necessity for securing their subsequent employment than First Diploma or grasp’s college students. In flip, this may increasingly recommend postgraduates usually tend to enter subject-specific roles on commencement.

2017/2018 (2,015 graduates)

2018/2019 (1,985 graduates)

2019/2020 (1,979 graduates)

The rest of the report gives a breakdown of traits, topic of examine in addition to graduate outcomes for every educational yr permitting you to achieve a extra detailed understanding of the Earth science graduate panorama within the UK.

Ought to you may have any questions or ideas on this subject, please do get in contact with us at diversity@geolsoc.org.uk.

Full report out there right here: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/education%20and%20careers/Careers/Earth%20Science%20Graduate%20Outcomes%20Report.pdf