Health and welfare graduates fare well, with 88% in employment or due to start a job, followed by ICT graduates (82%), engineering, manufacturing, and construction graduates (82%), business, administration, and law graduates (79%), graduates in services including tourism and hospitality (80%), agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and veterinary graduates (74%), social sciences and journalism graduates (72%), natural sciences, maths, and statistics graduates (67%), and arts and humanities graduates (63%). The average full-time starting salary for 2017’s third-level graduates is €33,574 although this varies significantly by sector, region, and degree type. University graduates earn an average of €34,759 within their first year of work whereas those who graduate from institutes of technology earn €31,998. Overall, graduates with a third-level education are twice as likely to be employed as those without a formal education, and three times less likely to be unemployed. With an increasing number of multinationals now based in Ireland, it is expected that there will be 18,000 high-level ICT job openings a year by 2022.

Source: Irish Examiner February 18, 2019 05:26 UTC