IIT-Bombay: India’s best in employability rankings – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Up from 111-120 to 101-110 in the latest world rankings, IIT-Bombay produces India’s highest calibre of graduates and it stands among the top 22% in the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings. According to over 50,000 employers surveyed by QS, the other Indian institution in top 150 is IIT-Delhi, which too improved its ranking in the 2022 list. In all, there are three Indian universities which feature in the world’s top 200 for graduate employment rankings released on Thursday. MIT, Stanford and University of California are the global leaders in this list.

Each institution’s score consists of five -chosen indicators — employer reputation (30%), alumni outcomes (25%), partnerships with employers per faculty (25%), employer/student connections (10%) and graduate employment rate (10%).

Three Indian universities achieve top-100 scores for QS’s alumni outcomes metric, which measures the number of highly successful business leaders, philanthropists, creatives, high-wealth individuals, and entrepreneurs produced by each university. University of Delhi ranks 21st globally and number-one in India for this metric, scoring 96/100.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras achieves India’s highest location-adjusted Graduate Employment Rate score (100/100, 4th globally). It is the only Indian institution to achieve a top-50 score for this metric.

All the three Indian universities — IITs from Bombay, Delhi and Madras – are ranked among the global top 200 have improved their position over the last year.

The IIT-Bombay has a score of 73.9 in employer reputation, 67.7 in alumni outcomes, 20.3 in employer – student connections, 56.3 in partnerships with employers, and 5.7 in graduate employment rate. Among these six parameters, employer reputation indicated the strongest one for the IIT with a rank of 70 globally.

Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri, director, IIT-Bombay said: “Training at IITB emphasizes learning outcomes on developing skills for analytical problem solving, capability to address unseen problems and an appreciation for the constraints that beset a specific problem. These are the terms of endearment for any technology oriented company. Hence I am not at all surprised at this ranking. As a matter of fact, I expect the rank to be within top-50 if it is truly measured.”

In total, 12 Indian universities are included among the 550 institutions included by QS in the final table. Of these four have improved their position since the previous iteration of the ranking, two have declined in rank and Two – O P Jindal Global University and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee – are new entrants this year.

Ben Sowter, director of research at QS, said: “With students becoming increasingly conscious of the competitiveness of the global graduate jobs market, and of the ever-increasing financial costs of their educational investment, it has become correspondingly crucial that independent data of this sort is available to them, so as to inform evidence-based decisions about their educational futures.”

Sowter added, “The data that contributes to this ranking shows that Indian universities are consistently producing high numbers of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and other highly successful individuals. However, with consistently low scores in our partnerships with employers’ indicator, it is also clear that India’s higher education leadership must strive to create stronger links with industry, facilitating more employer-student connection opportunities on campus.”