The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full time work did after leaving college in 2008.

The charts illustrate 4 different future paths that

graduate

and postgraduate admission in the UK took in 2008.

Overall

,

further

study is the most popular choice for enlistment

while

voluntary work is the least. The number of graduates is much higher than that of postgraduates. It is apparent that the graph for graduates and alum who continue to study stands at the highest point.

In other words

, nearly 30000

graduate

students choose to study

further

whereas

2725 postgraduate recruitment decide to follow the same path. Regardless of part-time work being the second most common for both students, nearly half of all the alum became temporary employees. Interestingly, the rate of

graduate

and postgraduate enlistment who are either unemployed or working voluntarily is almost equal.

Although

graduates and

graduate

share similar trends in that the unemployment rate of both recruitments is relatively lower and voluntary work remains the least popular, the number of the former is approximately 10 times higher than that of the latter.