World’s Best Universities For Executive Employability, 2017

The number one institution on CEOWORLD magazine’s list of the world’s best universities with internationally employable graduates was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As it turns out, MIT graduates are among the most employable in the world, followed by Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and Yale, according to the rankings.

CEOWORLD magazine, the world’s leading business publication that ranks colleges and universities, recently released its list of universities that produce graduates most sought-after by employers.

In forming its rankings, magazine used results from a survey of 42,000 hiring managers from large global companies in 52 countries and a 2nd panel of 34,000 senior executives and mid-level managers around the world.

Each company had more than 2,500 employees and recruited more than 25 graduates a year. Graduates from American universities dominated this year’s results. Of the top 10 universities on the list, 6 are based in the U.S. – including the top 5—while U.S. institutions make up 27 of the top 100.

Internationally employable graduates: which universities best prepare students for the graduate world?

The World’s Best Universities For Executive Employability, 2017

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	98
2	Harvard University	US	97.8
3	Stanford University	US	97.7
4	Caltech - California Institute of Technology	US	97.6
5	Yale University	US	97.4
6	University of Cambridge	UK	97.3
7	TUM - Technical University of Munich	Germany	97.1
8	UTokyo - University of Tokyo	Japan	97
9	University of Oxford	UK	96.9
10	Princeton University	US	96.7
11	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	96.6
12	Columbia University	US	96.4
13	National University of Singapore	Singapore	96.3
14	University of Toronto	Canada	96.2
15	Boston University	US	96
16	McGill University	Canada	95.9
17	University of California, Berkeley	US	95.8
18	Imperial College London	UK	95.6
19	HEC Paris	France	95.3
20	King’s College London	UK	95.2
21	IE University	Spain	95.1
22	University of Manchester	UK	95
23	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	94.7
24	Peking University	China	94.6
25	Australian National University	Australia	94.5
26	Brigham Young University	US	94.4
27	Johns Hopkins University	US	94.3
28	Duke University	US	94.1
29	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	94
30	EMLYON	France	93.8
31	Brown University	US	93.7
32	New York Universit	US	93.6
33	Indian Institute of Science	India	93.3
34	Mines ParisTech	France	92.9
35	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	92.6
36	École Normale Supérieure	France	92.5
37	LMU Munich	Germany	92.3
38	University of Edinburgh	UK	92.3
39	Dartmouth College	US	92.1
40	Fudan University	China	92
41	École Polytechnique	France	91.9
42	London School of Economics and Political Science	US	91.8
43	University of Melbourne	Australia	91.7
44	University of California, Los Angeles	US	91.5
45	University of Montreal/HEC	Canada	91.3
46	CentraleSupélec	France	91.1
47	University College London	UK	91
48	University of Sydney	Australia	90.9
49	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany	90.8
50	University of British Columbia	Canada	90.7
51	Cornell University	US	90.4
52	University of California, San Francisco	US	90.2
53	Heidelberg University	Germany	90
54	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	89.7
55	Tsinghua University	China	89.6
56	Carnegie Mellon University	US	89.4
57	Ghent University	Belgium	89.3
58	Monash University	Australia	88.5
59	University of Chicago	US	88.2
60	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	88.1
61	KU Leuven	Belgium	88
62	Kyoto University	Japan	87.7
63	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	87.6
64	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	87.5
65	University of Helsinki	Finland	87.3
66	University of Zurich	Switzerland	87.1
67	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	Germany	86.9
68	University of Navarra	Spain	86.7
69	University of New South Wales	Australia	86.6
70	Stockholm University	Sweden	86.4
71	ESSEC Business School	France	86.3
72	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	85.8
73	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	85.7
74	University Commerciale Luigi Bocconi	Italy	85.6
75	University of California, San Diego	US	85.4
76	Lund University	Sweden	85.1
77	McMaster University	Canada	85
78	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	84.7
79	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan	84.5
80	University of São Paulo	Brazil	84.2
81	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	83.9
82	University of Bristol	UK	83.6
83	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	83.3
84	Michigan State University	US	83
85	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	82.7
86	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	82.6
87	University of Birmingham	UK	82.4
88	University of Southern California	US	82.1
89	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	82
90	University Ramón Llull	Spain	80.7
91	University of Nottingham	UK	80.5
92	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	80.4
93	Sciences Po	France	80.1
94	University of Pennsylvania	US	79.8
95	Northwestern University	US	79.7
96	University of Göttingen	Germany	79.6
97	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	79.2
98	Technical University of Berlin	Germany	78.3
99	Georgetown University	US	78.2
100	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	78
101	Paris-Sud University	France	77.8
102	Texas A&M University	US	77.5
103	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	77.4
104	Purdue University	US	77.3
105	Georgia Institute of Technolog	US	77.1
106	Nanjing University	China	77
107	Osaka University	Japan	76.9
108	Free University of Berlin	Germany	76.7
109	University of Groningen	Netherlands	76.4
110	Zhejiang University	China	76.3
111	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	76.1
112	University of Texas at Austin	US	76
113	University of Bern	Switzerland	75.9
114	Seoul National University	South Korea	75.8
115	Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education	Mexic	75.7
116	University of Washington	US	75.2
117	Ohio State University	US	75.1
118	Leiden University	Netherlands	75
119	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy	74.8
120	Rice University	US	74.7
121	University of Michigan	US	74.5
122	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	74.3
123	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	US	74.2
124	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	74
125	University of Florida	US	73.8
126	Tel Aviv University	Israel	73.7
127	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US	73.6
128	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	73.2
129	University of Alberta	Canada	72.8
130	Keio University	Japan	72.7
131	University of Geneva	Switzerland	72.6
132	University of Auckland	New Zealand	72.4
133	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	72.3
134	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Ital	72.1
135	University of Basel	Switzerland	72
136	EDHEC	France	71.8
137	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	71.7
138	University of Oslo	Norway	71.5
139	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	71.2
140	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	71
141	University of Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	70.9
142	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	70.7
143	University of Science and Technology of China	China	70.5
144	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	70.1
145	American-University of Dubai	UAE	70
146	University of Iceland	Iceland	68.7
147	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	68.6
148	University of Vienna	Austria	68.3
149	University of Buenos Aires	Argentina	67.5
150	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	67.2

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Methodology:

The World’s Best Universities For Executive Employability, 2017 by the CEOWORLD magazine is based on 3 major indicators of quality, overall Score (100%) is the sum of:

1) Job placement rate
2) Academic reputation
3) Recruiter feedback

Data for these indicators was collected from publicly available sources, university’s website, our research, and survey. It measures the quality of education, job placements of graduates, and the recruiters feedback, without relying on university data submissions.

Hiring managers from large global companies, senior executives, and mid-level managers were asked to rate universities on a scale of 1 “marginal” to 100 “outstanding” or “don’t know.”

However, this is by no means a comprehensive list, while the universities above are the “World’s Best Universities For Executive Employability, 2017,” according to the CEOWORLD magazine — there may be many other universities that offer excellent programs.

* This rankings should not be viewed as the most important aspect when choosing a university, and are simply one element to consider.

* The top-ranked university receives 100 points.

* The rankings are the result of a rigorous analytical exercise, incorporating multiple data sources, without relying on university data submissions.

* Detailed survey data and information collected directly from 76,000 individuals, across three data points.

* Surveys completed by 42,000 hiring managers from large global companies, 22,000 senior executives, and 12,000 mid-level managers around the world.

* Magazine surveyed 76,000 people in 52 countries between 12nd September and 16th December 2016.

*The overall score are numerical scores given to the universities based on hiring managers, senior executives, and mid-level managers feedback — measuring the quality of the university. Overall scores are out of 100.

More details about the “World’s Best Universities For Executive Employability, 2017” – Email info@ceoworld.biz

The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 76.000 respondents is plus or minus 1.4 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that as in all survey research, there are possible sources of error—such as coverage, nonresponse and measurement error——that could affect the results.

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