Graduate employment

Completion and employment rates

Clinical psychology training has excellent completion rates and graduates have excellent rates of employment.

Completion rate for trainees

• The national non-completion rate for NHS trainees for the academic year 2023/2024 was only 0.5%, which includes all forms of non-completion.
  This is in line with the rates for the previous 10 years which were between 0.4% and 1.0% each year.

Employment rate for graduates

• For people completing NHS training in 2024, of those who returned data 90.5% were employed as a clinical psychologist (or an equivalent post) within 12 months of graduating.
  Although this is slightly lower than the rates for the previous 10 years, which were between 92.0% and 97.0%, there continues to be a very healthy post-graduation employment rate.
• Of those working as clinical psychologists (or an equivalent post) 96.8% were working in the NHS or in other public sector funded posts.
  This is in line with the rates for the previous 10 years which were between 93.6% and 98.7%.

Specialty data for graduates

Data for the specialities that clinical psychology trainees worked in after they graduated.