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What do Graduates do?

Graduate Destinations

Each year, all universities in Ireland and the UK survey their graduates to determine their first destination after leaving university.

In Ireland, this data is used by the HEA to gather national statistics.

Reports
Galway

What do Ireland's Graduates do?

The HEA have interactive dashboards detailing the results of the national survey available on Graduate Outcomes: Data & Reports
These detail results from 2017 and subsequent years.

Higher Education Outcomes Graduation Years 2010-2014: https://hea.ie/assets/uploads/2018/02/Final-CSO-HEA-Report-Higher-Education-Outcomes.pdf

The HEA have all their publications available from https://hea.ie/resource-category/statistics/publications/

(please click Galway tab above for results our graduate survey)

Latest survey results - 2024

In 2025 the Career Development Centre surveyed the class of 2024 for the Graduate Outcomes Survey.

The survey of graduates of 2025 will take place in spring/summer 2026 - to take part see Graduate Survey.

Main activity	PG	UG	Total
Working full-time	73%	50%	60.1%
Working part-time	11.2%	4.8%	7.6%
Due to start a job within 3 months	1.4%	0.4%	0.8%
Full-time further study or training	6.1%	39.9%	25%
Part-time further study or training	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%
Other activity	1.4%	2%	1.7%
Unemployed and looking for work	6.6%	2.4%	4.3%