The Global University Employability Ranking 2016

"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." —Robert Goheen (1919-2008)

Very interesting text. Times Higher Education should organize for a similar survey here in Africa where many universities are just a joke. We need this kind of information more than anyone.

I'm somewhat doubtful of the methodology employed in that this list seems restricted entirely to Research Doctoral universities and is devoid of any of the fine liberal arts colleges in the United States that prepare their graduates with the critical thinking skills essential in entrepreneurship, management, analysis and consulting, many of whom have disproportionately distinguished themselves in scientific and engineering achievement. While Babson College and Gettysburg College are in the US list, I'm surprised not to see schools such as Swarthmore, Amherst, Haverford, Oberlin, Reed, Cooper Union, Bryn Mawr, Pomona and Carleton, among others, as providing highly employable graduates, especially in comparison to the many large public universities that are more accomplished for their graduate research than their undergraduate outcomes. I suspect there is a misunderstanding of the available diversity of American colleges either in the part of the survey organizers or the respondents.

Further to my earlier comment, if employability has monetary value, the highest mid-career salaries for American college graduates are to be found at the military academies, and the highest starting salaries are to be found at liberal arts colleges such as Harvey Mudd, Rose Hulman and Washington & Lee. I have to conclude the methodology employed is a flawed one having a structural bias within.

really interesting and useful

This nice survey has < 20% engineering component. Engineering is also a big field, with sub segments ranging from chemical, nuclear, structural, civil, to power, ... electronic and software. From an electronic industry engineering perspective it would be desirable to have a similar survey conducted with 100% of the panelists coming from electronic technology industries, and a similar study with software engineering management panelists.