Global higher education think-tank QS Quacquarelli Symonds have named the world's top 500 universities for nurturing graduate employability. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is number-one. Stanford University is 2nd, and the University of California at Los Angeles has come in 3rd.
The ranking is characterised 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.
| QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020: Global Top 10 | ||||
| 2020 Rank |
2019 Rank |
2020 QSWUR |
Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | MIT | US |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Stanford University | US |
| 3 | 2 | 35= | UCLA | US |
| 4 | 5 | 42 | The University of Sydney | AU |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Harvard University | US |
| 6 | 9 | 16 | Tsinghua University | Mainland China |
| 7 | 6 | 38 | The University of Melbourne | AU |
| 8 | 7 | 7 | University of Cambridge | UK |
| 9 | 13 | 25= | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong |
| 10 | 10 | 4 | University of Oxford | UK |
| © QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2004-2019 | ||||
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