{"id":147957,"date":"2016-12-17T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=147957"},"modified":"2016-12-17T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T10:27:07","slug":"top-university-in-south-africa-for-graduate-employability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/147957\/top-university-in-south-africa-for-graduate-employability\/","title":{"rendered":"Top university in South Africa for graduate employability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QS Top Universities has released its\u00a0first full edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/employability-rankings\/2017?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email_qs&amp;utm_campaign=TU-UG-newsletter-Dec16&amp;partnerid=1632&amp;spMailingID=13932475&amp;spUserID=MTA5Njc2MTcwNTI4S0&amp;spJobID=883332238&amp;spReportId=ODgzMzMyMjM4S0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>QS Graduate Employability Rankings<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results show\u00a0which universities are best at supporting strong career outcomes, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich universities are best at creating student-employer connections? Which claim the most impressive alumni outcomes, or the strongest reputation among employers?\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2017 celebrates 300 leading institutions in this field, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/employability-rankings\/methodology\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>five key aspects<\/strong><\/a> of graduate employability.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Employer reputation (30%)<\/li>\n<li>Alumni outcomes (20%)<\/li>\n<li>Employer partnerships (25%)<\/li>\n<li>Employer-student connections (15%)<\/li>\n<li>Graduate employment rate (10%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest rankings are detailed in the table below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"12%\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"69%\">Stanford University<\/td>\n<td width=\"19%\">USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Tsinghua University<\/td>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>The University of Sydney<\/td>\n<td>Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>University of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td>UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Ecole Polytechnique<\/td>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Columbia University<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>University of Oxford<\/td>\n<td>UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>University of California, Berkeley<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>10<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Princeton University<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>101-150<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>University of Cape Town<\/td>\n<td>SA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>201+<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>University of Witwatersrand<\/td>\n<td>SA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/147709\/ranking-south-africas-best-business-schools-in-2016\/\">Ranking South Africa\u2019s best business schools in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QS Top Universities has released its first full edition of the QS Graduate Employability Rankings, detailing which University&#8217;s students are the most employable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":50574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-147957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148109,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147957\/revisions\/148109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}