Graduates of Scottish universities are particularly likely to find employment once they enter the world of work, new figures suggest.

According to official statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the number of Scottish graduates left unemployed a year after leaving university fell in 2005 compared with the previous year, down to only 4.9 per cent compared with 5.7 per cent in 2004.

An increase in the number of positions specifically designed for graduates is seen as one reason for the favourable graduate jobs market, as is the improving quality of graduates.

"A degree from a Scottish university is as close to a guarantee of a better career than you can get. The unemployment rate for graduates in Scotland overall is three per cent which is a better measure than in the first year after graduation.

"Four years after graduation 85 per cent of Scots university students are not only in jobs but in graduate level jobs."

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