Number of Graduates vs Entry Level jobs

[yaustar]

Originally Posted by yaustar

I got bored so I thought I take a look at what courses exist for games in the UK, it turned out to be 285 which is a lot more then I expected taking into account of the traditional courses that are not included in this count.

If 10 graduated per course, that means there is potentially 2850 graduates per year wanting to enter the industry in the UK alone which to me seems far too many for the size of the industry.

Any thoughts?

Looks like it has been echoed: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=32817