Emigration rate of UCC graduates doubles

THE rate of emigration among graduates of one of the country’s biggest colleges has almost doubled in two years, as one-in-eight picked up work overseas within nine months of finishing degrees at University College Cork.

Emigration rate of UCC graduates doubles

The data shows a 12% of primary degree graduates who qualified in 2009 had found work in another country by last spring, up from 7% in 2007.

It is also considerably higher than the 9% of 2009 graduates at all Irish colleges who were working overseas in figures highlighted by the Irish Examiner last August.

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