Nottingham Trent University has been named in a government report as having the highest employment level for undergraduate degrees in journalism.

New figures show that 75pc of the college’s journalism students went on to secure employment, well above the national average of 55pc.

The figures are contained in the government’s annual ‘unistats’ report which measures the percentage of students in graduate employment.

Nottingham Trent’s BA journalism course also topped the NCTJ results table for undergraduate degree courses in 2009/2010, with the greatest percentage of gold-standard A-C passes and 100wpm shorthand.

Robin Staniforth, director of the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at NTU said: “We do all we can to make sure our students have the skills and understanding needed to get into journalism.

“This, coupled with our NCTJ accreditation, we feel gives them the best possible chance to succeed in a very challenging profession.”

Staffordshire University was second in the table with 73pc and NCTJ-accredited courses at the University of Central Lancashire and University of Sheffield also made the top ten.

Pete Leydon, journalism course leader at Staffordshire University commented: “This is one in the eye for the doom and gloom merchants who say there are no journalism jobs out there.

“These figures confirm what we at Staffordshire University knew all along, that our journalism graduates are high quality operators.

“The industry, in all its forms, is crying out for talented NCTJ-trained journalists who possess the passion, determination and hard work to succeed. And this is what we instil in our undergraduate and postgraduate students from day one.

“Only yesterday, one of our current final year NCTJ-accredited students landed a full-time job ahead of 400 applicants with a national consumer magazine!”

The government’s Unistats figures are currently the only subject-specific measure for students to compare different courses.