The two best universities in South Africa for graduate employability
A new QS Top Universities ranking shows which South African universities produce the “most world-changing” graduates in the country, according to employers.
The ranking analyses universities on five key metrics, including how graduates go on to perform in future career paths, how universities collaborate with employers, and how many graduates get employed.
These factors all go into “establishing which universities are producing world-changing graduates,” QS said.
Employer reputation is the biggest factor measured by QS in its ranking, measuring the views of over 37,000 employers, globally, on who they considered to be the best universities.
Only two South African institutes cracked the list of 300 top universities across the globe, led by the University of Cape Town, which ranked within the top 150.
The University of the Witswatersrand was the other South African institute listed, ranking between 200 and 300.
Notably, in the general QS rankings, the group listed 9 South African universities for 2016, with UCT ranked first, followed by Wits and Stellenbosch University in third.
Looking at Africa as a whole, the only other African country to feature is Egypt, where The American University in Cairo and Cairo University ranked along with Wits in the 200-300 range.
Stanford University in the USA was ranked as the top university in the world for employability, followed by MIT, and China’s Tsinghua University.
The full ranking can be found here.
For other data, QS looked at the alma maters of highly successful individuals ranked in over 60 different lists (wealth, success and power lists), while also analysing the ‘educational pathways’ of over 21,000 of the world’s most innovative, creative, wealthy, entrepreneurial and philanthropic people.
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