Where's the money? quiz

Do STEM graduates

earn average graduate earnings?

have lower than average graduate earnings?

have higher than average graduate earnings?

If an average graduate earns 23% more over their working life than if they had ended their education with 2 A levels, how much more does a chemistry or physics graduate earn?

25%?

30%?

27%?

Over a working lifetime, it is estimated that a graduate ( all degrees) will earn an average of £160,061 more than a non graduate. This is known as the ‘graduate premium’.
See if you can match the additional lifetime earnings figure to the degree course titles.

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£34,494

£243,730

£100,479

£186,307

To sort

Engineering Degree
Chemistry Degree
All Arts Degrees
Psychology Degree

Can you identify the correct average starting salary for these first degree graduates who graduated when they under the age of 25 in 2002/3? This is their salary in a full time job 3 and half years after graduation. For example, a Psychology graduate would start on £19,285.

Sports Science
Biology
Mathematics
Engineering
Chemistry

£25,298
£22,530
£19,401
£20,552
£24,693

There is a substantial difference in the earnings of graduates with different degree subjects, for example, a male electrical engineering graduate can earn 40.73% more than the average arts graduate. Put these people in order according to % of earnings above the average arts graduate, with the highest at the top.

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Laura – Accountancy graduate
Bianca – Law graduate
Sara – Biology graduate
Scott – Accountancy graduate
Jake – Maths and Computing graduate
Matt – History graduate
Jamil – Sociology graduate

Non graduate entrants to STEM related occupations also achieve financial rewards above the average. Can you match the career area with the average wage?

Electrical Trades
Science and Technical Associate Professionals (e.g. lab technicians)
Engineering Technicians
Telecommunications Engineers

£30, 930
£27,134
£27, 285
£28, 029

This is just a fun quiz, so don't despair if you're unhappy with your score! All the answers to this quiz are on a word document link back on the STEM Getting Started Raising Awareness of STEM page. To go back click here.

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