Graduates from the University of Bradford are more likely to find jobs than their counterparts at Oxford.

Figures released by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show that 96 per cent of graduates from the university are in employment six months after graduation.

Nationally the data shows that six months after graduation, 68.4 per cent of full-time first degree students who graduated in 2000 are employed, 19.2 per cent are undertaking further study and only six per cent are unemployed.

The indicators only cover UK graduates who were studying full-time and obtained first degrees.

The university performed better than its benchmark, which was 95 per cent. The results produced a similar figure when further study was excluded. In this case 95 per cent of students who obtained first degrees from full-time courses last summer were employed. Its bench mark in this case was 93 per cent.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Colin Bell, said: "Our graduates are very determined to do well and this is reflected in the results. I am pleased to see so many of our students found employment so soon after graduating. We hope that these figures will continue to improve in the future."

The results show that the university fared better than Oxford graduates, of which 95 per cent found work, Leeds Metropolitan, (91 per cent), Huddersfield (91 per cent), Lincolnshire and Humberside, (92 per cent), Sheffield (95 per cent) and Sheffield Hallam (95 per cent).

Graduates from Trinity and All Saints College in Horsforth have also been successful with figures showing 97 per cent are in employment.

The figures looked at graduates on January 3 2001 - six months after leaving university.

Bahram Bekhradnia, director of policy at the HEFCE, said: "These indicators will enable institutions to compare themselves with other similar institutions and will help prospective students to make informed choices of where to study."