British graduates are being left £10,000 worse off than foreign students. Graduates from the same course can earn salary differences of up to £70,000 depending on their university.

According to the Department for Education, UK-born graduates with a bachelor’s degree made an average of £31,400 a year in 2022-23, five years after leaving university. By comparison, non-EU international graduates who remained in Britain were earning £41,200 a year, almost £10,000 more.

That gap amounts to a 24 per cent pay advantage. While British graduates earned only slightly above the national median of £29,500, their overseas peers were firmly placed among the top 30 per cent of earners.

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Data from the Higher Education Statistics

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