On Monday, announcement of 500 leading universities across the globe which nurture graduate employability was made by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS Graduate Employability Rankings measures the success rate of universities in terms of producing employable graduates as well as helping them get a lucrative job.
As per topuniversities.com, 5 indicators are taken into consideration for assessing the graduate employability ranking. They are – employer partnerships, employer reputation, graduate employment rate, alumni outcomes and employer-student connections.
In QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018, Stanford University has emerged to be the best university. This is for the second consecutive year that the university has shown its excellence as far as graduate employability is concerned. Stanford University has attained the best score in 3 of the 5 indicators, i.e., alumni outcomes, employer partnerships and employer reputation.
As per topuniversities.com, 600 universities had been taken into account to include in the ranking this year and this number is just double from the last year. Out of them, 495 have been published.
Top 25 QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018:
1. Stanford University, United States
2. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
3. Harvard University, United States
4. The University of Sydney, Australia
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
7. The University of Melbourne, Australia
8. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
9. University of California, Berkeley (UCB), United States
10. Tsinghua University, China
11. New York University (NYU), United States
12. Columbia University, United States
13. Princeton University, United States
14. The University of Tokyo, Japan
15. University of Toronto, Canada
16. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
17. UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
18. Cornell University, United States
18. Yale University, United States
20. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
21. University of Chicago, United States
22. University of Pennsylvania, United States
23. Peking University, China
24. University of Waterloo, Canada
25. University of Michigan, United States
Both Yale University and Cornell University have attained the 18th spot in the list.
Now if we take a look at where the Indian universities stand in this list, then as per QS Graduate Employability Rankings, the two IITs of India, i.e., IIT-Delhi and IIT-Mumbai, have come out as the strongest providers of the graduates who are highly employable while University of Delhi is the leader in giving highly successful alumni.
Here is the list of Indian Institutions which have figured in the list of QS World Rankings:
1. Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi (IITD) – Rank 191-200
2. Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IITB) – Rank 191-200
3. University of Mumbai – Rank 201-250
4. Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IITM) – Rank 201-250
5. University of Delhi – Rank 201-250
6. Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur (IITKGP) – Rank 251-300
7. Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur (IITK) – Rank 301-500
8. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – Rank 301-500
So which university are you going to take admission in?
