Top 50 Revealed: Which Are The best Universities For Job Hunters?

Unsurprisingly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has been ranked as the university most likely to impress employers, according to the Graduate Employability Rankings, based on the views of 42,000 employers.

U.S. colleges and universities take the top 4 places, with MIT, Stanford, UCLA, and Harvard, whose graduates are seen as the most sought after. Australia’s rise in employability is reflected in the University of Sydney taking fifth place and the University of Melbourne appears in sixth place. The University of Cambridge is the highest UK-based institution in 7th place, with the University of Oxford in 10th.

These are the top 50 universities most likely to impress graduate recruiters:

1. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
   2. Stanford University, US
   3. University of California, Los Angeles, US
   4. Harvard University, US
   5. University of Sydney, Australia
   6. University of Melbourne, Australia
   7. University of Cambridge, UK
   8. University of California, Berkeley, US
   9. Tsinghua University, China
   10. University of Oxford, UK
   11. New York University, US
   12. University of Toronto, Canada
   13. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   14. Yale University, US
   15. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   16. Princeton University, US
   17. Columbia University, US
   18. University College London, UK
   19. University of Tokyo, Japan
   20. Peking University, China
   21. Cornell University, US
   22. University of Chicago, US
   23. Seoul National University, South Korea
   24. University of Pennsylvania, US
   25. University of Michigan, US
   26. (equal 25th) University of Waterloo, Canada
   27. Fudan University, China
   28. Waseda University, Japan
   29. University of New South Wales, Australia
   30. Ecole Polytechnique, France
   31. 31 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Logo (KIT), Germany
   32. Northwestern University, United States
   33. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
   34. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
   35. Duke University, United States
   36. The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
   37. Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   38. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Chile
   39. University of British Columbia, Canada
   40. Zhejiang University, China
   41. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
   42. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
   43. Purdue University, United States
   44. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
   45. Brown University, United States
   46. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
   47. American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
   48. Keio University, Japan
   49. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
   50. The University of Queensland, Australia