The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full-tim e work did after leaving college in 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graphs illustrate the choices of graduate and postgraduate

students

who were not employed full-time after college in 2008. Immediately, it can be seen how the two groups took proportionally similar decisions for their future,

although

some differences were present.

Firstly

, the most striking similarity was the popularity of

further

studies. For both groups,

this

was the most taken decision, with 29,665 graduates and 2,725 postgraduates choosing

this

path.

On the other hand

, regarding part-time work, there were some major differences. Graduates who choose to work part-time were almost half of the ones deciding to study,

while

the part-time

workers

were almost the same number as the ones who pursued their studies in the postgraduate group.

In particular

, the part-time

workers

were 17,735 in the graduate

students

group and 2,535 in the postgraduate.

Finally

, the proportions of unemployed and voluntary

workers

were almost identical. The unemployed were in both groups a little more than half of the

students

, with 16,235 graduates and 1,625 postgraduates,

whereas

voluntary

workers

were less than 10% of the

students

.

Overall

, it can be stated how the future choices of

students

were similar in 2008 in the UK, with the exception of the popularity of part-time work.