Are you a Meerkat, Bull or Dolphin? Depends on your university!


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Emolument.com has launched its groundbreaking Alumni service, allowing users to instantly benchmark themselves against their university peers.

Which animal for which university?

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Having analysed over 700 individual alumni profiles, Emolument has derived a totem animal for each institution. Which are you?


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LSE graduates are Squirrels! (Financiers)


93% of graduates go into finance, earning on average £35k in the first year of their career. And they also show the highest proportion of technical majors (Economics, Business, etc..).


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Oxford graduates are Whales! (Travellers)


Spread between New York, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, Singapore, Morocco and Paris, they are the most geographically diverse in our sample. They also earn £35k in the first year of their career.


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Cambridge graduates are Meerkats! (Good listeners)


With the highest proportion of consultants (25%) in our sample, Cambridge grads pay attention and troubleshoot. They earn £42k in the first year of their career.


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Kings College graduates are Bulls! (Fighters)


With the highest proportion of lawyers (27%) in our sample, Kings grads clearly relish a good argument/debate. They earn £42k in the first year of their career.


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Edinburgh graduates are Dolphins! (Communicators)


Highest proportion of media professionals, ear to the ground when it comes to new trends and communication habits with over 30% working in the field, earning £30k in the first year of their career.


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Bristol graduates are Orangutan! (Pragmatics)


90% of these graduates go into IT, financial services, accounting or consultancy hardly any media, legal, or public sector jobs. They earn £42k in their first year, the same as Cambridge grads.


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Imperial college graduates are Eagles! (Explorers)


From locations as far afield as Nigeria and Ukraine, they are the most adventurously located graduates and at £45k in their first year, the highest paid grads.


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Brunel grads are Beavers! (Tech Savvy)


Unsurprisingly, with over 35% going into IT, they have the most tech oriented careers of all the big universities with healthy earnings of 36k in their first year.


NOTE: if using the data above, please refer to Emolument.com as salary benchmarking site and use hyperlinks to www.emolument.com

 

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