A few are even helping younger graduates figure out how to apply.
For full-time medical graduates, figure 4 illustrates the total repaid for any level of initial debt.
Open days provide a chance to delve behind the university's published graduate employment figures and find out what leavers on your course go on to do.
And their graduate employment figures are amazing, of course: it's right up there in the rankings – joint 48th – not that it matters!
But universities say there's a problem: since official graduate employment figures fail to show how many graduates have gone on to start their own businesses, their success at turning out entrepreneurs is being overlooked, and students are being misled.
As graduate unemployment figures reveal that a costly higher education is no guarantee of a job, should we be surprised if poorer students increasingly look to the apprenticeship option?
We were spending $45,000 on tuition, some of us without financial aid, and many taking out loans that were lining us up to graduate six figures in debt.
By time they graduate, the figure has risen to 95%.
But there are historical puzzles to be pondered, as well, and that's where the old map and the graduate student figure in.
At a time when college degrees are valuable and when President Barack Obama has called on the nation to dramatically increase its number of college graduates, these figures should give us pause.
