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Will universities send me complete & accurate information?

When the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is carried out, graduates receive a data protection statement that explains how their replies to the survey will be used. Some universities write data protection statements that allow prospective students to receive detailed occupations, employers, salaries and locations. Other universities will not have planned to make detailed information available to you. The universities may be prevented by the Data Protection Act from sending you complete lists of graduate destination information, because they did not obtain their graduates' permission to do so. Data Protection is discussed in the HEI pages of this website. Read these for some inside information.

You can expect information that you receive to be accurate. Legislation protects the public against businesses that provide misleading information in order to sell services to customers.

How long will it take?

If you want avoid forgetting how long your universities took to reply, then keep a record of the dates you sent your requests and received your replies with your other UCAS materials. You might want to discuss universities' response time with your friends.

Will admissions tutors discriminate against applicants who have sent Outcome Enquiries, seeing them as trouble makers?

This is possible but you can manage the risk.

Such discrimination seems likely to exclude students seeking value for money and graduate employability from courses that do not offer value for money and graduate employability. While students may find this frustrating in the short term, in three years time as graduates competing for rewarding graduate-level jobs they may look back on it as a good thing.

Admissions tutors who are committed to improving their students' value for money and their graduates' employability seem more likely to welcome Outcome Enquiries.

You can manage this discrimination risk when you send Outcome Enquiries using a card or email. Writing your name on the card is optional. You can provide an email address that does not include your name.

You need to make up your own mind about whether the likely benefits of sending Outcome Enquiries outweigh the likely costs.