A new QS Top Universities ranking shows which South African universities\u00a0produce the “most world-changing” graduates\u00a0in the country, according to employers.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
These factors all go into\u00a0“establishing which universities are producing world-changing graduates,” QS said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Only two South African institutes cracked the list of 300 top universities across the globe, led by the University of Cape Town<\/strong>, which ranked within the top 150.<\/p>\n The University of the Witswatersrand<\/strong> was the other South African institute listed, ranking between 200 and 300.<\/p>\n Notably, in the general QS rankings, the group\u00a0listed 9 South African universities for 2016, with UCT ranked first, followed by Wits and Stellenbosch University in third.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Stanford University in the USA was ranked as the top university in the world for employability, followed by MIT, and China’s Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n