21 November 2017

According to the Global University Employability Ranking exercise recently conducted by Times Higher Education, a renowned education think-tank, graduates from the National University of Singapore were ranked the 16th most employable in the world.

NUS was the only Singapore university to make it to the top 20 of the ranking exercise. The same survey placed NUS fourth in Asia.

Previously, NUS had been ranked 15th in the world, and 3rd in Asia.

NUS deputy president of academic affairs and provost Tan Eng Chye said the ranking was a demonstration of how NUS’ transformative education provides its graduates with strong employment prospects.

Survey participants were asked to define what they look for in graduates and choose the universities they believe produced the most employable graduates. The companies that had participated in the survey each had more than 5,000 employees and each recruited more than 50 graduates each year.