Leaving university with a 2:1 is becoming less important than ever to secure graduate jobs in the UK, according to an annual survey of employers.
With fewer than half of companies requiring the qualification, the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) said, businesses were increasingly seeing it as a “crude” measurement.
The organisation said it had reported a growth in the number of employers who had adopted no minimum entry requirements over the last few years – driven partly by a desire by organisations to control their own quality requirements – but this year saw a reversal of that trend.
The ISE’s annual Student Recruitment Survey of 169 large UK student employers found that 18 per cent set no minimum entry requirement for graduates – down from 26 per cent the year before.
