The 17 best-paying university subjects to study if you’re a woman But more than 10% of male graduates from three universities — LSE, Oxford, and Cambridge — earned more than that figure in the same period. The academic gender pay gap was prevalent further down the university league table, too.

“Even if we do not focus on the very top, a large number of institutions (36 for men and 10 for women) had 10% of their graduates earning more than £60,000 a year ten years on,” an IFS