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There’s an optimistic outlook for graduate career opportunities in the UK, according to a survey of careers advisers at UK universities.

Despite Brexit-related concerns about the job market, about 70 per cent of the respondents to AGCAS’ Graduate Labour Market and Student Engagement Survey reported an increase in the number of graduate vacancies compared with the previous year, but this was down by more than 10 per cent from both 2014 and 2015.

Switzerland, Germany and Sweden are the best destinations for students looking to have a successful career abroad, according to new research into expatriate employment.

Europe is judged to be the best region overall, even though expat earnings and benefits are below the survey average.

Nonetheless, more than half the expats working in Europe say that the work culture is an improvement compared with their home country.

In just over a year since Times Higher Education – Student was launched, we’ve published more than 300 articles revealing the latest university rankings and data insights, offering expert advice on going to university, giving student voices a platform to share their experiences and highlighting trends affecting students in higher education.

At the top of the agenda in 2016 were some key issues within higher education and beyond: Brexit and its potential impact, tuition fees, student satisfaction and graduate employability.

View the full Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2017 results

Studying at college in the United States can be notoriously expensive, particularly for “out-of-state” students, which often includes international students.

The universities with the best computer programmers are not the big names you might expect.

After a worldwide coding competition, HackerRank has produced a ranking of the 50 universities or schools producing the best coders in the world – and the results are surprising.

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The University of Huddersfield has the highest proportion of academic staff with a known teaching qualification, out of 130 universities in England.

Choosing to study engineering is a smart choice for long-term earning potential, according to a new ranking of degree majors in the United States.

All but one of the top 10 degrees ranked by mid-career salary are in an engineering discipline, with petroleum engineering coming out on top thanks to a median salary of $172,000 10 years after graduation.

Actuarial science is the only degree outside engineering where at least half of graduates will earn more than $115,000 after 10 years.

History and philosophy are the most intellectually stimulating courses to study in the UK, according to new analysis of student satisfaction.

Over the past five years, more than 54 per cent of history and philosophy students in the National Student Survey (NSS) strongly felt that their subject was intellectually stimulating.

Staff enthusiasm seems to be an important factor in whether students enjoy their courses, since history and philosophy also recorded the highest proportion of students who said that their staff were enthusiastic about the subject they teach.

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More students than ever are choosing to study in Australia, according to a student accommodation marketplace that has seen a dramatic rise in regional bookings.

Two of the top three most searched-for cities on Student.com’s booking service are Sydney and Melbourne.

The company has doubled its revenue from Australian bookings in the past 12 months, and it expects to see student accommodation in Australia “tripling as an asset class” in the next three years.