DoC Students Earn Top UK Salaries

HESA/Sunday Times have released figures showing that Computing students at Imperial College are the 2nd highest earners in UK in a league table ranking all subjects and institutions. The Sunday Times' table showed that DoC students had started careers with an average salary of £34,960 last year, despite the economic downturn.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) figures show that Imperial Computing students outperformed students from the LSE graduating with Economics (£34,441), Oxford graduating with Business Studies (£31,677) and PPE (£28,974) and Cambridge graduating with Computer Science (£29,136).

As well as being an indication of how much employers value a rigorous engineering education, students are obviously benefiting from the industrial placement scheme that is run in the summer of the 3rd year of the MEng undergraduate programme. The industrial placement is set up by the department and makes use of the many industrial contacts that the department cultivates in industries such as communications, finance, software, games and media.

Table courtesy of Sunday Times 2009

Written by: jb