The median wage among large graduate recruiters last year was £29,500, according to the High Fliers Graduate Market Report 2015.
Most new graduates will get jobs, but not on large graduate training schemes, rather with small businesses and local firms".
Most large graduate employers have not made the mistake of the last recession when they stopped recruiting.
And that's mostly because of reports that "around three-quarters of large graduate employers routinely use the 2 1 to sift [job] applications".
We are acutely conscious that economic recession, the digital revolution and a large graduate talent pool have combined in a seemingly perfect storm.
University presses with large graduate programs and bigger endowments or financial backing from the state still do not enjoy the status in the field that Wesleyan has, nor do they win a comparable assortment of poetry prizes.
And if we can't rely on the universities to police themselves then employers, particularly those with large graduate schemes, need to get better at doing it for them.
"We don't think that's a sufficient reason to have a large graduate program.
Students at selective institutions with a large graduate to undergraduate student ratio and that devote a significant amount of spending to research have lower rates of persistence in STEM fields.
At this early stage, the impact of a relatively small program like TEAM-Science on an institution with such a large graduate program is difficult to ascertain.
