In the UK CS is one of the least effective ways to be employed.
The catch is that other grads will do terrible work like waiting on tables, while CS grads usually won't. So "employed" is a relative term. Stats for "gainfully directly employed in work that relies on their major" are harder to come by.
Even so. Anyone who thinks they can do a CS degree here and walk into a well-paid job is deluding themselves.
I am surprised to hear that. I have no personal experience with it, but anecdotally, the son of a friend who recently graduated in CS from Newcastle said he and all his classmates had multiple offers upon graduating. Although, he did say the work was not what he had hoped for. He was hoping for a position in game development or distributed systems and ended up at a company doing POS terminals software.
The catch is that other grads will do terrible work like waiting on tables, while CS grads usually won't. So "employed" is a relative term. Stats for "gainfully directly employed in work that relies on their major" are harder to come by.
Even so. Anyone who thinks they can do a CS degree here and walk into a well-paid job is deluding themselves.