University of Western Australia
This article is reprinted with the permission of The Australian newspaper. It was published on Wednesday 9 October 2019.
Dawn Freshwater
Investment in study is an investment in the nation’s wellbeing.
A new data set released this week has confirmed what many of us have always known: going to university makes personal economic sense for our graduates. The data shows that 91.1 per cent of graduates from Group of Eight universities — Australia’s leading research-intensive universities — have full-time employment three years after graduation.