Uncovering employment outcomes for autistic university graduates in the United Kingdom: An analysis of population data.

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International research suggests that more autistic people are entering higher education. Currently, very little is known about this group in the United Kingdom, for example, we have little information about how many autistic people enrol at UK-based higher education institutions, their backgrounds, the academic programmes they study and what they do once they have graduated. Our study tries to explore these issues by comparing outcomes between autistic students, other disabled students and non-disabled students. We use population data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency in the United Kingdom, which included 1,326,416 graduates across the years 2012-2018. Our findings indicate that the degree subjects studied at university by autistic students are more

SUBMITTER: Vincent J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10913337 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature