To inform this debate, Universities UK (UUK) analysed a range of data sources looking at employmentand earnings outcomes of graduates, how these change after time, and how they compare to thosenon-graduates who could have gone to university but didn’t.This analysis allows us to go beyond standard measures used by the regulator and government, thatfocus on outcomes 15 months after graduation. This includes use of official government data that linksstudent and tax records, to track and com