Global Employability University Ranking 2014 results

Top 100 universities for employability revealed

December 8, 2014

By Chris Parr
Twitter: @ChrisParrTHE

Compare these rankings with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015

The University of Cambridge has replaced the University of Oxford at the top of a global ranking that measures how universities perform on graduate employability.

The Global Employability University Survey 2014 has 13 UK institutions making the top 150 of the list, with University College London and Imperial College London joining the Oxbridge institutions in the top 15. The list is dominated, however, by US institutions, which claim six of the top 10 spots.

The results, compiled by French human resources consulting group Emerging Associates along with Trendence, a German polling and research institute, are based on surveys of 2,500 international recruiters in 20 countries.

“On the whole, the results of this year’s survey and the ensuing ranking confirm that ‘global’ is the key word for tomorrow’s university”, said Laurent Dupasquier, associate director of Emerging Associates. “The top tier players, [the] global brands – which all tend to be American and British – continue to lead, while other Anglo-Saxon universities, those that are mainly regional players, tend to fare less well, with an average of five places lost in comparison with last year.”

Global Employability University Ranking 2014 top 100

Where applicable, we have included a link to the most relevant Times Higher Education World University Rankings page for each institution.

2014 Rank	2013 Rank	Name	Country
1	3	University of Cambridge	Great Britain
2	2	Harvard University	USA
3	8	Yale University	USA
4	1	University of Oxford	Great Britain
5	9	California Institute of Technology	USA
6	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
7	4	Stanford University	USA
8	11	Technische Universität München	Germany
9	6	Princeton University	USA
10	10	University of Tokyo	Japan
11	7	Columbia University	USA
12	12	University of California, Berkeley	USA
13	14	University of Toronto	Canada
14	13	University College London	Great Britain
15	21	Imperial College London	Great Britain
16	18	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
17	19	École Normale Supérieure Paris	France
18	15	University of Edinburgh	Great Britain
19	35	Johns Hopkins University	USA
20	26	Peking University	China
21	16	École Polytechnique ParisTech	France
22	23	Indian Institute of Science	India
23	20	Australian National University	Australia
24	17	H.E.C. Paris	France
25		University of Manchester	Great Britain
26	25	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
	31	Duke University	USA
28	30	McGill University	Canada
29	34	IE University	Spain
30	24	University of Chicago	USA
31	28	University Heidelberg	Germany
32	29	New York University	USA
33	33	Monash University	Australia
34	22	Brown University	USA
35	37	King’s College London	Great Britain
36	43	Fudan University	China
37	38	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland
38	x	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
39	49	National University of Singapore	Singapore
40	46	University Commerciale Luigi Bocconi	Italy
41	39	Cornell University	USA
42	40	École des Mines ParisTech	France
43	32	Boston University	USA
44	41	London School of Economics	Great Britain
45	36	Universityde Navarra	Spain
46	47	Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main	Germany
47	59	University of Montreal, H.E.C Montreal	Canada
48	55	University of New South Wales	Australia
49	48	École Centrale Paris	France
50	60	Ludwig-Maximilians-University München	Germany
51	53	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
52	78	University of California, San Francisco	USA
53	52	Indian School of Business	India
54	42	Kyoto University	Japan
55	51	University of British Columbia	Canada
56	64	Tsinghua University	China
57	71	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
58	56	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
59	70	Northwestern University	USA
60	57	University of Birmingham	Great Britain
61	61	University Zürich	Switzerland
62	44	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
63	45	University of Nottingham	Great Britain
64	65	University de Lausanne	Switzerland
65	50	University Of Melbourne	Australia
66	58	Dartmouth College	USA
67	69	Stockholm University	Sweden
68	67	University of Ghent	Belgium
69	77	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
70	62	University of Pennsylvania	USA
71	87	University of Washington	USA
72	68	École de Management de Lyon	France
73	75	ESSEC	France
74	79	London Business School	Great Britain
75	74	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
76	72	Technische University Eindhoven	The Netherlands
77	76	Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin	Germany
78	66	University of Bristol	Great Britain
79	63	Georgetown University	USA
80	73	McMaster University	Canada
81	80	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany
82	84	Utrecht University	The Netherlands
83	86	Katholieke University Leuven	Belgium
84	82	Boston College	USA
85	125	Michigan State University	USA
86	83	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	The Netherlands
87	92	Georg-August-Universität Gottingen	Germany
88	110	University of Bern	Switzerland
89	105	Erasmus University Rotterdam	The Netherlands
90	108	Lund University	Sweden
91	99	University of Helsinki	Finland
92	85	Brigham Young University	USA
93	122	Rutgers University	USA
94	100	Sciences Po Paris	France
95	91	University of California, San Diego	USA
96	113	University de São Paulo	Brazil
97	90	Technische University Delft	The Netherlands
98	81	University of Southern California	USA
99	101	University of Texas, Austin	USA
100	94	University Basel	Switzerland

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