Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) from Universities: 2014-15: Scotland
This experimental statistics release presents employment and earnings outcomes for graduates five years after graduation.
Sex
Figure 3 shows the annualised median earnings for each Scottish Institution and subject area five years after graduation split by sex. It shows that in most subjects, males have higher median earnings than females five years after graduation.
Median earnings can vary between subject and sex for various reasons. See 'Data Quality' for some of the issues to consider when looking at this data.
Figure 3: Comparison of distributions of annualised earnings of graduates* for each subject area five year after graduation (lower quartile, median and upper quartile), male and female, Scotland
* UK domiciled First degree qualifiers 2008/09
Table 1: Median annualised earnings of graduates* by subject studied and sex five years after graduation
| Subject | Median earnings of 2008/09 cohort | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Scotland | |
| Medicine & Dentistry | £49,200 | £47,200 | £48,000 |
| Engineering & technology | £34,700 | £28,400 | £34,100 |
| Veterinary science | £35,500 | £34,000 | £34,000 |
| Economics | £32,700 | £36,800 | £33,600 |
| Mathematical sciences | £29,700 | £29,400 | £29,600 |
| Education | £29,500 | £29,400 | £29,400 |
| Law | £29,900 | £27,900 | £28,500 |
| Nursing | £28,800 | £27,500 | £27,900 |
| Architecture, building & planning | £28,400 | £25,900 | £27,600 |
| Physical sciences | £27,600 | £26,300 | £26,900 |
| Subjects allied to medicine (excluding nursing) | £30,700 | £26,200 | £26,700 |
| Business & administrative studies | £28,300 | £25,200 | £26,500 |
| Computer Science | £26,700 | £20,900 | £25,700 |
| Languages (excluding English studies) | £30,600 | £24,600 | £25,300 |
| Social studies (excluding economics) | £26,000 | £24,700 | £25,000 |
| Historical & philosophical studies | £24,900 | £24,700 | £24,700 |
| Biological Sciences (excluding psychology) | £24,600 | £23,800 | £24,300 |
| English studies | £22,200 | £23,500 | £23,000 |
| Agriculture & related subjects | £25,700 | £22,600 | £22,800 |
| Psychology | £21,300 | £22,100 | £21,900 |
| Mass communications & documentation | £19,600 | £22,600 | £21,500 |
| Combined | £22,500 | £19,700 | £21,500 |
| Creative arts & design | £20,400 | £19,400 | £19,700 |
* UK domiciled First degree qualifiers 2008/09
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