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 bar charts provided reveal the destination of British graduate and postgraduate students with the exception of those who attained full-time jobs after finishing college.

Overall

, as can be vividly seen from the diagrams, in both categories,

further

study

was the most

favorable

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destination,

whereas

voluntary

work

received not much attention.

Furthermore

, almost the same number of postgraduate students who attended

further

study

did part-time

work

,

while

for graduates, the same pattern did not transpire. As illustrated by the charts, the figures for graduate students, regarding three clusters, namely voluntary

work

,

further

study

, and unemployment, were approximately ten times higher than those of postgraduates, at 3,500, 29,665, and 16,235, respectively. The numbers for part-time

work

,

on the other hand

, followed a different pattern. More precisely, for graduates,

this

number was slightly lower compared to the figure for

further

study

, at 2,535 compared with 2,725,

while

for graduates, the figure was nearly one-half of that for

further

study

, at 17,735 in comparison with 29,665.