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Undergraduate degrees: labour market returns
Analysis of the estimated absolute economic value of degrees, comparing higher education students and graduates’ earnings with similar individuals at age 29.
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This research looks at over 1,200 courses offered across UK universities.
It uses the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset to consider background characteristics like:
- class
- ethnicity
- GCSE results
This is to estimate the absolute earnings return from different university courses.
The first publication in this research series, relative labour market returns are also available.
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Published 27 November 2018
Last updated 6 December 2018
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Appendix data tables updated: table 16 figures corrected.
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First published.