APESMA's 2005 graduate employment survey reveals that 82% of recent engineering graduates are employed in engineering roles, up from 70% two years ago.

Recent graduates are defined as those from the previous two years. High levels of employment were in environmental engineering, civil engineering and electrical engineering. Those course with industry based learning reported employment rates in excess of 90%.

From an article by Dominic Angerame in APESMA's Professional Network magazine Aug/Sept 05, Vol 15 No 4