Full- time jobs fall for uni leavers

FEWER university students are securing full- time work within four months of graduating than a decade ago, a national report will reveal today.

It also reveals the gender pay gap persists, dropping slightly on average, but is up to $ 20,000 a year in some fields.

The National Report into Graduate Outcomes, released today and coinciding with the 2018 university offers, shows 71 per cent of students work fulltime four months after they finish their degree, compared to 83 per cent a decade ago.

The report also reveals which degrees lead to the highest and lowest paying jobs in the students’ graduate year, with dentistry leading the pack.

Undergraduate students studying medicine and pharmacy had the highest chance of securing work, each having a 95 per cent success rate of finding a full- time job within four months.

Dentistry, veterinary science, rehabilitation and teaching degrees led to more than 80 per cent of undergraduates working fulltime in four months.

Creative arts courses had 53 per cent of graduates working full time, while humanities, social sciences, psychology, science and mathematics had about 60 per cent of graduates in full- time jobs. But there has been an increase in graduates finding part- time work, rising from 17.1 per cent in 2008 to 37.9 per cent in the last year.