Cardiff University Placements: Job Opportunities & Placement rate, Packages

Cardiff University records an overall placement rate of 96% for the year 2017-18. From over 8,000+ international students of Cardiff University, a placement rate of 84% was recorded for them. The average starting salary was INR 4.0 Lakhs and the total average salary touched INR 23 Lakhs.  

Only 43% of the total graduated students submitted the Graduate Outcomes Survey within 15 months of their graduation. The Business School of Cardiff University recorded an overall placement rate of 86% and the highest salary was £123,000 for a PhD holder in the Business study area. 

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Cardiff University Placement Highlights 

Cardiff University 2017-18 Batch Profile 

Cardiff University has over 33,000+ students enrolled, from over 130 countries. Maximum number of students were enrolled across undergraduate courses and more than 30% of the students were international. More details are as follows: 

• 23,755 undergraduate students 
• 8,505 postgraduate students 
• 8,475 international students (non-UK, but Europe included) 
• 72% overall student satisfaction rate 
• 96% of graduates were employed or pursued higher study. 

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Cardiff University Placement Stats 2017-18 

Around 3,000+ responses were recorded by recent graduates of Cardiff University in 2018, 15 months after graduation, which makes 42.4% of the total responses recorded. As per the graduate outcomes survey, the following were recorded:

As given above the following points were recorded: 

• Full time paid working graduates were just 76.8% 
• Whereas, part time paid working graduates were 3.9% 
• Graduates who applied for higher studies were 10.5% 

• There were also some graduates who were studying and working simultaneously - 4.7% 
• As per GOS, around 1.3% of students were assumed to be unemployed, whereas 1.9% were not interested in getting an employment. 

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Salaries by Job

In the following table given below studetn can check the salary details by job. The highest saalry was bagged by the legal department job and the lowest was salary was recorded by Logistics, Operations and Purchasing. The salaries mention here has been taken from the site emoluments.

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Top Employers of Cardiff University 

Over 200+ employers recruited 3,000+ graduates of Cardiff University in 2017 and 2018, some of the well known and those who offered maximum salaries are tabulated below: 

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Cardiff University Business School Stats 

Cardiff Business School recorded a whooping 86% placement rate in 2017-18 and 98% of placement students surveyed in 2015/6 would highly recommend placements to other Cardiff Business School students. The following table shows the average salaries of Cardiff Business School graduates and postgraduates for the year 2017-18:  

Cardiff’s 90% of interns progressed onto graduate schemes with the big 4 accounting firms and 70% of the interns are offered a permanent job while on the graduate programme with no extra assessments. As per the recent AGCAS survey, it was observed that an increase in graduate opportunities in the following areas for Cardiff Business School graduates were seen:  

• Accounting, Banking and Finance  
• business Consulting and Management  
• Marketing, Advertising and PR 

In terms of Cardiff Business School, the following career related skill development is available for graduates:

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