"I would say there are about 100 of us doing our masters and of those maybe 10 or 20 would probably get jobs in WA next year."

Perth student Chaz Flint is just weeks away from completing his masters degree in architecture at the University of Western Australia.

In WA, 44 university graduates are competing for every entry-level job. Credit:Karl Hilzinger

But while his university's advertising campaign encouraged students to 'pursue the impossible', the 24-year-old said he'd likely have to venture over east to pursue his career, which he claimed was near-impossible to crack as a graduate in the west.

He is one of 15,000 students across the state expected to finish university in 2017 who will go on to compete for less than 400 advertised graduate roles, according to a recent report.