Engineering
The department is historically one of those that has good graduate level employment outcomes and this year is no exception.
- The graduate level employment figure exceeds the average of all Sussex departments, for this metric, with 84% of employed leavers being in graduate level work. The overall employment figure at 64% is 5% above the university average of 59%.
- The rate of unemployment for leavers from the department is below the school average at 9% but is much higher than the institutional average of 4%.
- Leavers from this department decide to undertake further study at a lower rate than the school and university average with only 21% of leavers choosing to study.
- This data gives the department a PI score of 80% just 3% below the university average.
Informatics
The department is a strong performer and their graduates have recorded some excellent outcomes.
- The overall employment rate of 69% is the fifth highest across all departments.
- Pleasingly, 94% of these leavers are in graduate level employment, the best performance of any non medicine or social care department.
- Leavers have performed less strongly in terms of unemployment with 11% indicting that they were still seeking work, although this is actually only 5 individuals.
- The further study rate for the department of 16% is below the school average and is well below the institutional average of 30%.
- This data gives the department a PI score of 84% making it joint 10th highest overall.
* The Performance Indicator (PI) is the product of those in graduate level work or further study out of those in work, study or unemployment.