"Figure 3: Certainty of post-study plans of non-EU graduating students to stay in the UK after study, 2017, UK","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. The Survey of International Graduating Students was conducted between 13 March and 30 April 2017. The survey targeted all graduating international students at UK universities. 2. Graduating international students were asked how long they planned to stay in the UK after completing their current course of study and how certain they were of these plans. 3. The “uncertain” category includes those who responded as “neither certain nor uncertain” and “uncertain” of their intentions. 4. The percentages are not weighted to be representative of the wider student population. Further [detail on the survey and representativeness is available in Annex 1](/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/internationalstudentmigrationresearchupdate/august2017#annex-1-note-on-the-quality-and-representativeness-of-the-survey-of-graduating-international-students)." "Unit","%" "","" "","Very certain","Certain","Uncertain","Not certain at all" "Stay","17.4","20.9","47.4","14.3" "12 months or more","14.9","30.2","47.6","7.3" " 6 to 12 months","5.1","24.4","57.7","12.8" "3 to 6 months","6.5","23.3","60.8","9.5" "Less than 3 months","19.7","33.9","39.7","6.8" "Leave Immediately","41.7","32.6","19.2","6.5"