russell group unis VS non-russell group unis

Well it's not necessarily that going to a RG institution is going to make is say twice as easy to get a job, but it is Russell Group universities that the graduate recruiters target most, so you might get more attention.

I'm not saying it's the way it should be, far from it.

It would be useful if the employment "exit survey" completed 6 months after graduation was conducted more than 6 months after graduation and also included most useful questions than plainly whether or not you have a job. I'd like to see job satisfaction, relevant area, maybe even salary included.

At the moment, we have no real data apart from odd "league tables" like these:

Universities Targeted by the Largest Number of Top Employers in 2012-13
1. Warwick
2. Nottingham
3. Manchester
4. Cambridge
5. Bristol
6. Durham
7. Oxford
8. Birmingham
9. Bath
10. Leeds
11. Sheffield
12. Imperial College London
13. Loughborough
14. Edinburgh
15. London School of Economics
16. University College London
17. Southampton
18. Newcastle
19. Strathclyde
20. Exeter

Which survey is this from ?

I think it is the High Fliers survey.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9796679/Warwick-University-top-target-for-graduate-employers.html

http://www.highfliers.co.uk/

Oh that one.

I think the so called careers are undifferentiated, so being the Solihul branch manager is treated the same as head of derivatives at Barclays capital.

This and the fact that it highlights recruitment at ' Manchester, Leeds ' and a few other large relatively low quality universities without mentioning ICL, UCL, LSE, KCL makes me think this is more quality over quantity - manager at Iceland kind of survey.

No very misleading to me.

It's based on The Times Top 100 Employers, not just any random graduate career so it's pretty representative of a very good range of graduate careers. Yes there will be difference in being "Head of Derivatives at Barclays Capital" to being a British Army Officer, but who is to say which one is less of a graduate "high quality" career?

Also, relatively speaking Manchester and Leads may be 'low quality universities' compared to LSE, UCL and KCL with regards to IB careers, but certainly not in other areas (especially considering LSE offers only a small number of degrees) - for example, the sciences.