The majority of UK graduates who return to the region where they went to school do not work in their hometown, new figures suggest.
Previous research on graduate mobility has often examined how many graduates return to their home region for work, after studying elsewhere.
However, new research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) uses seven different categories to examine the impact of UK graduates’ movements within or between regions for the first time.
Its analysis of 280,000 graduates from its student data collection and Graduate Outcomes survey found that nearly half (46.5 per cent) stayed in the same region where they lived to study and work.
But of these, 60 per cent worked in a different local authority from where they lived previously – with Londoners most likely to do so.
