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Tec de Monterrey ranked 52 out of 497 Employability Ranking of Graduates 2019 by QS, placing itself as number 2 in Latin America and number 1 in Mexico.
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The company QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited released the results of the Ranking of Employability of Graduates 2019 which evaluates the best higher education institutions worldwide.
This year 669 universities where evaluated, marking a 10 percent increase from last year, but only 497 were ranked.
The Tecnológico de Monterrey maintained the first national place and the second place in Latin America. At a global level, the University was positioned as number 52, climbing ten positions compared to last year.
To obtain the ranking, QS GER measures the employability of graduates of professional and postgraduate universities since 2016 taking into consideration the reputation that the university has among employers; the training of high-performance students, the connection of the institution with companies and how attractive are the recent graduates for employers.
This 2019 edition represented the answers of 40,000 employers and more than 39 academic degrees of 28,000 influential graduates.
Top 10 Universities Worldwide
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. University of California, Los Angeles
4. Harvard University
5. University of Sydney
6. Melbourne University
7. University of Cambridge
8. University of California, Berkeley
9. Using of Tsinghua
10. University of Oxford
Top 5 Universities in Latin America
1. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2. Tecnológico de Monterrey
3. University of Sao Paolo
4. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
5. Universidad de Los Andes
Methodology
The methodology considers five criteria related to the employability of graduates:
1. Employer reputation
2. Alumni Outcomes
3. Partnerships with Employers per Faculty
4. Employer-Student Connections
5. Graduate employment rate
Employer reputation (30%). Employers identify those universities from which they obtain the most innovative, effective and prepared graduates.
Alumni Outcomes (25%). Analyze more than 30,0000 of the world’s most successful, innovative, creative, wealthy, entrepreneurial and philanthropic people to determine which university is producing most world-changing individuals.
Partnerships with Employers per Faculty (25%). This indicator consists of two parts; First, he uses Elsevier’s Scopus database to establish universities that are successfully collaborating with global companies to produce transformative and citable research. The second part considers the associations related to job placement of students that were reported by universities and validated by the QS research team.
Employers-Students Connection (10%). Adds the number of employers actively present on college campuses for twelve months to support motivated students to establish a network and obtain information, increasing the opportunity for students to do internships or participate in research. The participation of employers can be in career fairs, organizing presentations of the company or any other self-promotion activity.
Graduate employment rate (10%). This indicator measures the proportion of graduates who obtained a part-time or full-time job within 12 months of graduation. It takes into consideration the rate of each institution and the average of the country where they are, so the ability of a university to promote employability will be affected by the economic performance of their country.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Tecnológico de Monterrey stood out by occupying the 13th position worldwide in the 5th criteria: employability rate; position 18 in Connection Employers-Students; and the 31st position in outstanding graduates.
Salvador Alva, president of Tecnológico de Monterrey, said that the Institution is proud to be the number one university in Mexico in the opinion of employers because it means that the institution is a platform of talent. It also says that graduates have an excellent reputation and that their skills and competencies are attractive to the best companies.
“It is a source of pride for Tec to be a platform for successful graduates, innovators, and entrepreneurs who manage to develop professionally anywhere in the world, 75 years after its foundation, ” said Salvador Alva. This achievement, he added, is proof of this, that “graduates have a great reputation and that their skills and competencies are attractive to the best companies.”
The link that Tecnológico de Monterrey makes with companies, through different centers and departments such as the Life and Career Center, is a crucial element in achieving this position. Promoting talent and opportunities are generated by linking with employers, as well as through the development and monitoring of student competencies.
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José Longino Torres
José Longino Torres
José Longino Torres