A growing number of university students are settling in Brighton and Hove after completing their degrees.
The latest figures from the Careers and Employability Centre (CEC) at Sussex University in Falmer suggest that 44 per cent of graduates remain in the area.
The figure – 44 per cent – is up on the 40 per cent who stayed in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex or West Sussex a year earlier.
More than 1,700 students who graduated between September 2008 and August 2009 took part in the survey for the new report.
The figures suggest that 85 per cent of graduates are working or studying for another degree or both – one percentage down on the previous year.
The proportion out of work is 8 per cent compared with 6 per cent in the previous survey.
Those working were earning an average salary of £19,422, according to a report of the 2009 survey in The Badger, the Sussex University student newspaper.
