Employability: the Université de Montréal and its affiliated schools 8th in Canada
QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022
October 21, 2021
The Université de Montréal and its affiliated schools placed 8th in Canada in the 1st employability rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) of Britain, the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022. They are also among the top 200 worldwide.
The rankings were determined, using the following criteria and weightings:
- Reputation among employers (30%) – a survey of over 75,000 employers from around the world, asking them where they source the most competent, innovative and effective graduates
- Alumni outcomes (25%) – an analysis of more than 40,000 of the most innovative, creative, wealthy, entrepreneurial and philanthropic world-changing individuals, with a focus on younger profiles
- Partnerships with employers (25%) – information drawn from the Scopus database to establish which universities are successfully collaborating with 2,000 global companies (listed in Fortune and Forbes); and the number of work placement-related partnerships
- Employer-student connections (10%) – the number of employers present at career fairs on a university’s campus over the past 12 months, adjusted for the size of each institution
- Graduate employment rate (10%) – proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study or unavailable to work) in full- or part-time employment within 12 months of graduation, as compared with the national placement rate