A new league looking at who earns the most within five years of graduating puts Edinburgh in fifth place with an average salary of £31,170. Leading the table of the top 20 graduate salaries was Oxford (£34,802) followed by Cambridge (£34,720), then University College London (£32,757) and King’s College London (£31,889). And the research found Edinburgh produces 7.6 per cent of the UK's highest earning graduates overall. Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University also made it into the top 20 with an average graduate salary of £28,868. At the other end of the salary scale were Abertay University, with an average earning of £21,228 and University College Birmingham, with an average earning of £21,068. The research by savings comparison platform Raisin UK also looked at which courses produce the graduates with the highest earnings and found unsurprisingly that medicine and dentistry come top with 47 per cent on more than £39,000. But further analysis of how well pay keeps up with inflation showed that for medicine, salary growth over time could be slower than other professions and industries. Engineering and technology graduates produced the next highest salaries, with 19 per cent earning over £39,000. Some 17 per cent of architecture, building and planning graduates and business and administrative studies graduates had salaries at that level; as did 16 per cent of law graduates. Raisin UK compiled their league table using data from employment website Adzuna and the High Education Statistics Agency’s Graduate Outcome survey. A message from the Editor: Thank you for reading this article. We're more reliant on your support than ever as the shift in consumer habits brought about by coronavirus impacts our advertisers. If you haven't already, please consider supporting our trusted, fact-checked journalism by taking out a digital subscription.