SINGAPORE: National University of Singapore (NUS) graduates have made the list of the world’s top 10 most employable, according to a global survey of recruiters.
NUS jumped six spots to be placed 10th in the latest Global University Employability Ranking, which measures how universities perform on graduate employability.
Now in its eight year, the survey is done annually by Emerging, a French human resource consultancy, and published by the Times Higher Education.
Among other institutions in the top 10 are Harvard University and Stanford University in the United States; and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The University of Tokyo – the only other Asian university in the top 10 – took the ninth place, one spot ahead of NUS.
The other Singapore university in the ranking – the Nanyang Technological University – jumped 18 spots to be ranked 73rd this year, an improvement from last year’s ranking of 91st spot.
The global annual survey was conducted with 7,000 recruiters and managing directors of international companies from 22 countries who had cast around 75,000 votes for universities they felt were the best for graduate employability.
Together they represent employers that have recruited more than 250,000 young graduates in the past 12 months.