Six-in-ten degrees pay for themselves for the exchequer in the long run, with the government making a loss on the rest.

How does going to university affect earnings over people’s lifetimes? How much do individuals and taxpayers benefit from people going to university?

How has entry into the public sector among graduates from top universities changed following the growth of finance, tech and consulting?

This report explores options for incorporating administrative records on graduate earnings into the OfS’ regulation of higher education in England. 

We investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the early careers of young people who recently entered the labour market.

We investigate variation in early-career earnings by degree class outcome using the Depart­ment for Education’s Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.

This lecture will cover what we learned from the last big economic crisis in 2008, and what it can teach us about the prospects for people graduating during Covid.

October 5th is the deadline for big companies to report their gender pay gaps. In 2019 – before the pandemic disrupted data collection – women were paid 16% less per hour than men on average. The gap in average annual earnings was even larger, at 37%, since women are much more likely to work part-time.

In this report, we study the link between higher education, geographical mobility and outcomes for individuals and regions.

We investigate differences in the returns to undergraduate degrees by socio-economic background and ethnicity using the Department for Education’s Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data set.