The charts below show what UK graduate and postgraduate students who did not go into full time work did after leaving college in 2008

The bar charts demonstrate four destinations of UK graduate and postgraduate students after finishing college in 2008.
Overall, the figure for graduate students was higher than that for postgraduate students. In addition, the number of students in both groups who continued further study was always the highest while voluntary work registered the lowest figure.
Looking at the first graph, about 30,000 students decided to seek further education, and this figure was the highest among all types of destinations. The second place belonged to part-time job as it accounted for nearly 18,000 graduate students. According to the graph, only 3,500 graduate students did voluntary work while 16,235 were employed after college.
On the second graph, we see that 2,725 postgraduate students chose to continue the further study, while the figures for part-time work and voluntary work are lower, standing at 2,535 and 345 respectively. Lastly, 1,625 UK postgraduate students were not in the workforce.