Why Universities Should Publish Programme-Level Outcome Data

Aggregate employment figures for a university tell an applicant almost nothing, because the variation within an institution routinely exceeds the variation between institutions.

Programme-level reporting, destinations, sectors, and the share of graduates continuing to further study, would let applicants compare the thing they are actually buying.

The objection is that granular data invites unfair comparison between programmes with different missions. The answer is context, not concealment: publish the numbers alongside the mission and let readers weigh both.