I would have also thought that the better the University you went to, the more likely you were to get a job. However my University (Hertfordshire) claimed that around 70-80% of its Business Graduates (which I am) obtain work within 6 months. I'm not too sure on this, if your Uni tells you this themselves it could just be some form of properganda to make them look better. No-one would go to a University if they told their students that only 20% of their Graduates obtained a job within months, I also agree that it's difficult to generalise as not everything is based on skills, but the personalities of candidates etc

In response to the Robert Gordons employment ratio, they don't specify what type of work the graduates go into. Having lived in the areas and known many people going to these universities, I think the main difference is the type of employment. RG simply say the large majority of graduates are employed, but this doesn't take into consideration part-time, low paid work which doesn't require a degree! I have to say I don't totally agree with JMan. Yes, people should be judged on their skills for the job. Yes, the university they graduated from should not have a heavy weighting in the decision-making process. I'm going to make a controversial statement, however, which is that degrees are not equivalent between universities. I've seen how much work it takes to get a 2:1 from Cambridge, I've experienced how much it takes to get a 2:1 from a Russell Group university, and I've seen how much work it takes to get a 2:1 from various ex-polytechs which will remain nameless. Maybe this is why employers do take university into consideration - the skill and motivation to get a good degree from one university can differ from that required for a good degree from another.