London, 19th September 2019: Global higher education think-tank QS Quacquarelli Symonds have named the world’s top 500 universities for nurturing graduate employability. The 2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings offer authoritative, independent, multivariate data regarding the relationship between university choice and career outcomes. In so doing, they meet growing student demand for information about the potential employment benefits their education might offer.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is number-one. Stanford University is 2nd, and the University of California at Los Angeles is 3rd. The ranking is characterized by significant disparities between QS’s overall QS World University Rankings and this exercise. In particular, Asia’s top universities outperform continental Europe’s leading institutions. The rankings therefore demonstrate that there is no perfect parallel between an outstanding reputational and research university, and an outstanding nurturer of student career outcomes.
To explore the university-employability relationship, QS use a unique five-metric method that captures each institution’s regard among 44,000 employers worldwide, alma mater data from 29,000 highly successful individuals, institutional industry partnerships, employer presence on campus, and location-adjusted graduate employment rate.
Executive Summary
MIT retains the dual honour of being both world number-one in QS’s overall exercise, and the world number-one for employability;
MIT is not number-one in any individual metric, but performs best when they are aggregated;
The employer dataset used for the Employer Reputation indicator is the world’s largest repository of employer insight into graduate quality;
Asia’s leading university is Tsinghua University in Mainland China, which ranks 6th;
India’s leading institution is the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) which ranks in the 111-120 band;
Continental Europe’s top university is Switzerland’s ETH Zurich, which places 17th.
Ben Sowter, Research Director at QS says: “Fifteen Indian universities participated in the 2020 edition of the QS Graduate Employability Rankings, and ten made it into the published range, one more than last year. All the featured institutions either rise or remain in the same position of the previous edition. IIT Bombay leads nationally, followed by IIT Delhi and IIT Madras. The latter ranks 3rd globally in the Graduate Employment Rate indicator. The University of Delhi, achieve the next best score at indicator level, placing 20th globally for Alumni Outcomes metric, while The University of Mumbai ranks 41st globally in the same metric. The Birla Institute od Science and Technology debuts in this table among the 201-250 band and achieves the best rank for the Employer-Student Connection indicator among all the featured Indian universities. While there is room for improvement, India has achieved a good performance overall.”
MIT retains the dual honour of being both world number-one in QS’s overall exercise, and the world number-one for employability;
MIT is not number-one in any individual metric, but performs best when they are aggregated;
The employer dataset used for the Employer Reputation indicator is the world’s largest repository of employer insight into graduate quality;
Asia’s leading university is Tsinghua University in Mainland China, which ranks 6th;
India’s leading institution is the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) which ranks in the 111-120 band;
Continental Europe’s top university is Switzerland’s ETH Zurich, which places 17th.
Stats & Figures:
758 institutions included in the final evaluation;
682 institutions ranked;
501 institutions published;
36 new entrants within Top 500;
81 locations covered overall;
73 locations covered in Top 500;
