QS graduate employability rankings 2018: Zurich in the Top 20
Stanford University has been named the best university in the world for graduate employability for the second consecutive year, acccording to QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts and career advice specialists. The American institution is one of 13 United States of America universities in the top 25 of the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018, which assesses how successfully universities produce employable graduates and foster connections between students and employers.
According to topuniversities.com which is hosting the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018, five indicators are used to assess universities in the graduate employability ranking: employer reputation, alumni outcomes, employer partnerships, employer-student connections and graduate employment rate.
Of these, Stanford achieved a perfect score in three: employer reputation, alumni outcomes and partnerships with employers.
According to topuniversities.com, 600 universities were considered for inclusion in this year's ranking, twice as many as last year, with the top 495 published. Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO of QS said: "This ranking is arguably the most extensive global comparison of the employability outcomes achieved by higher education institutions."
In the QS World University Rankings 2018, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London, University of Chicago and ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are placed in top 10 positions.
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*
19. 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 Cornell University and Yale University are placed in 18th place in the rankings. Numbers in this list are serial numbers)
Among the top 25 universities in QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018, United States is represented by 13 universities while United Kingdom has 3 representatives.
Countries like Canada (2), China (2), Hong Kong (1), Switzerland (1), Japan (1) and Australia (2) are also represented in the top 25 universities of QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018.
Ben Sowter, research director at QS, says that the key takeaway from the rankings this year is that “employability is about more than prestige and selectivity”, since institutions which have prioritised achieving strong graduate outcomes score highly, regardless of reputation.