Revealed: The universities with the highest starting salaries
Good news for the Russell Group, but not all of them
Tom JenkinPaying £9,000 a year for a degree is all worth it – if you’re going to a university that will fetch you a £30k salary when you graduate that is.
While your course has a serious bearing on how much you’ll earn when you finish uni, the trend that Russell Group establishments give you better prospects has almost been broken. A degree from Loughborough – famous for sports and boys – will get you £24,884-a-year. Three years at City in London will make you a little more at £25,456. And a degree from Leicester’s former polytechnic De Montfort will mean you’ll get paid £26,670 – only £500 less than Oxford.
Still though, the hub of science and engineering Imperial takes top spot. Students here on average earn £33,951 when they start their first job. LSE, a university specifically designed to create the world’s next wave of financial gurus and CEOs, students will earn £33,406 when they start work. They’re not that closely followed by Cambridge, with an average graduate salary of £39,385.
So how quickly will you get rid of your mountain of debt and finally see your bank account in the black?
1. Imperial £33,951
2. LSE £33,406
3. Cambridge £29,385
4. Oxford £27,134
5. De Montfort £26,670
6. St George’s £26,358
7. Bath £26,071
8. King’s £26,014
9. UCL £25,983
10. Warwick £25,716
11. City £25,456
12. Loughborough £24,884
13. Queen Mary £24,468
14. Exeter £24,420
15. Bristol £24,254
16. Durham £24,065
17. St Andrews £24,029
18. Surrey £23,749
19. Southampton £23,707
20. Birmingham £23,416
21. West London £23,272
22. Brunel £23,247
23. Aston £23,190
24. Edinburgh £23,118
25. London South Bank £23,098
26. Strathclyde £23,062
27. Glasgow £22,999
28. Nottingham £22,982
29. Newcastle £22,760
30. Manchester £22,686
31. Aberdeen £22,616
32. Dundee £22,540
33. SOAS £22,534
34. Middlesex £22,459
35. Heriot-Watt £22,362
36. Hertfordshire £22,308
37. Sheffield £22,152
38. Goldsmiths £22,091
39. Robert Gordon £22,078
40. Oxford Brookes £22,052
41. Liverpool £21,998
42. Buckingham £21,978
43. Lancaster £21,967
44. Kingston £21,893
45. Greenwich £21,867
46. Bournemouth £21,764
47. York £21,732
48. Cardiff £21,714
49. Stirling £21,651
50. Leicester £21,635
51. UWE £21,632
52. Buckingham New £21,604
53. Leeds £21,568
54. Portsmouth £21,558
55. Brighton £21,545
56. Leeds Trinity £21,525
57. Reading £21,447
58. Roehampton £21,289
59. Royal Holloway £21,281
60. Westminster £21,186
61. Coventry £21,132
62. Northumbria £21,074
63. East London £21,054
64. Sussex £20,981
65. Royal Agricultural Uni £20,980
66. Keele £20,947
67. Glasgow Caledonian £20,931
68. Harper Adams £20,928
69. Kent £20,910
70. Queen’s University Belfast £20,863
71. UEA £20,790
72. London Met £20,788
73. Edinburgh Napier £20,762
74. St Mary’s £20,762
75. Plymouth £20,732
76. Birmingham City £20,714
77. Canterbury Christ Church £20,686
78. Liverpool Hope £20,645
79. Suffolk £20,631
80. Hull £20,611
81. Nottingham Trent £20,537
82. West Scotland £20,472
83. Swansea £20,425
84. John Moores £20,415
85. Abertay £20,384
86. Cumbria £20,148
87. Queen Margaret Edinburgh £20,110
88. University of the Arts, London £20,009
89. Sheffield Hallam £19,988
90. Essex £19,983
91. Bradford £19,884
92. Edge Hill £19,865
93. Salford £19,855
94. Leeds Beckett £19,771
95. Winchester £19,753
96. Teesside £19,720
97. Anglia Ruskin £19,646
98. Northampton £19,607
99. Derby £19,599
100. Manchester Met £19,519
101. Highlands and the Islands £19,455
102. Bedfordshire £19,400
103. Huddersfield £19,392
104. Wrexham Glyndwr £19,330
105. Cardiff Metropolitan £19,305
106. Stafforshire £19,288
107. Chester £19,234
108. South Wales £19,217
109. Arts University Bournemouth £19,182
110. Southampton Solent £19,070
111. UCLan £19,030
112. Aberystwyth £18,982
113. Ulster £18,981
114. Gloucestershire £18,952
115. Bishop Grosseteste £18,759
116. Lincoln £18,677
117. Bangor £18,649
118. Chichester £18,530
119. Newman £18,465
120. Worcester £18,434
121. Bolton £18,240
122. Sunderland £18,215
123. St Mark and St John £18,131
124. York St John £18,102
125. University for the Creative Arts £17,891
126. Bath Spa £17,737
127. Norwich University of the Arts £16,921
128. Falmouth £16,830
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