Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Scotland's graduates are some of the UK's top earners.

The University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh University, Glasgow University and Dundee University all made the list of 10 UK universities where graduates can expect to be earning well in their first year after graduation.

In all four, it was the medicine and dentistry departments which produced the highest earning graduates.

The medicine and dentistry class of 2012/13 from the University of Aberdeen were earning an average of £37,600 per year in 2014/15, just one full year after graduating.

They were followed by Edinburgh University with an average of pay £37,500, Glasgow University on £37,100 and Dundee University on £36,800.

The figures were collated by the Department for Education .

(Image: SWNS)

And five years after leaving the leading university, medicine and dentistry alumni were earning an average of £49,200 a year - the highest of any subject from Glasgow .

Glasgow’s computer science graduates came in second place to the doctors, earning £28,600 per year.

But different subjects resulted in higher salaries across the country.

Business and administrative studies graduates from Oxford were the nation’s top-earning graduates from the class of 2012/13, earning £41,500 on average.

The DfE data also showed differences in what male and female graduates study and what they go on to earn.

For example, male law graduates from the London School of Economics (LSE) earned £42,000 a year on average.

Female LSE law graduates were earning much less at £24,000 a year.

Men formed the vast majority of computer science alumni from Imperial College in London, earning £40,000 on average per year.

The top earning cohort of women specifically were nursing graduates of St George’s Hospital Medical School, who took home £38,700 a year on average.

Degrees that tended to lead to high salaries five years on included law, economics and computer science.

At the other end, graduates in creative arts and design tended to go on to earn the lowest salaries immediately after graduation.





TOP 10 SUBJECTS EARNING THE MOST MONEY ONE YEAR AFTER GRADUATION



Rank / Institution / Subject area / Average salary, one year after graduation

1. University of Oxford / Business & administrative studies / £41,500

2. Open University(The) / Economics / £39,600

3. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine / Computer

science / £39,400

4. University of Cambridge / Computer science / £38,200

5. St George's Hospital Medical School / Nursing / £38,100

6. Open University(The) / Engineering & technology / £37,900

7. University of Aberdeen / Medicine & Dentistry / £37,600

8. University of Edinburgh / Medicine & Dentistry / £37,500

9. University of Glasgow / Medicine & Dentistry / £37,100

10. University of Dundee / Medicine & Dentistry / £36,800