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2019 GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY RANKINGS

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Introducon

2018 Global Skills Gap Report

Indicator: Weighngs & Definions

2019 Edion Summary

Ranks & Scores

Domesc / Regional Performance

Submied & Collected Data

Underlying Raos

Employer Reputaon and Alumni Outcomes

QS Research Team

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CONTENTS


The 2019 edion of the QS World University Rankings: Graduate Employability will be published on Tuesday 11 September2018 on www.topuniversies.com.

The Graduate Employability Rankings seek to compare the employability outcomes of higher educaon instuons acrossthe world by considering:

· How well reputed are the instuons among employers?· Are the instuons nurturing high-achievers?· How connected are instuons to companies?· How aracve are an instuon’s recent graduates to employers?

This year we included 660 instuons in our evaluaon, comprising a 10% increase in the number of instuons on lastyear’s edion. In total, we are publishing the results for the top 500 universies.

As is the case with any university ranking, the methodology cannot capture all of the complexies involved in aempng tomeasure graduate employability at a global level. However we believe this ranking provides innovave insight and a richdataset of unprecedented nuance, to this crical conversaon. We considered responses from over 40,000 employers,39,000 mapped degrees and affiliaons of over 28,000 high-achievers, considered more than 140,000 employers'connecons with graduates, and evaluated nearly 200,000 work placement partnerships for this 2019 edion.

The following pages present the results for your university and the underlying data used for the calculaons. It also providesyou with comparisons against the averages in your home country or region.

We encourage you to look over this data which will help you to prepare for any acvies to celebrate your achievement.Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require any clarificaon, if you believe that there’s a need for amendments or ifyou have any more general feedback.

Kind Regards

The QS Intelligence Unit [email protected]

2019 QS Graduate Employability RankingsOut on Tuesday 11 September 2018www.topuniversies.com

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2018 Global Skills Gap Report

For more insights, download the full report via the link:

hp://www.qs.com/porolio-items/the-global-skills-gap-in-the-21st-century/

Digging deeper into the QS Global Employer Survey dataset, QS has just released a brand-new Global Skills Gap Report, wherethe mismatch between graduate skills and employer expectaons is examined in the context of the fourth industrial revoluon.

The report was produced in partnership with the Instute of Student Recruiters in the UK. It reveals latest insight into the mostprominent skills gaps worldwide, as well as how different recruitment priories affect employer sasfacon, examining the roleuniversies play in preparing graduates for the labour market. Below is a snapshot of the current picture on the graduate skillsgap worldwide.


INDICATORS: WEIGHTINGS & DEFINITIONS

Employer - Student Connecons

Partnerships with Employers

Graduate Employment Rate

Employer Reputaon

Alumni Outcomes

30%

25%

25%

10%

10%

WEIGHTINGS

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Employer Reputaon (30%)QS tradionally includes the Employer Reputaon as a key performance area in all its rankings exercises.As expected, this metric has a leading role in a methodology purely focused on employability.The Employer Reputaon is based on over 40,000 responses to the QS Employer Survey, and asksemployers to idenfy those instuons from which they source the most competent, innovave,effecve graduates. The QS Employer Survey is also the world’s largest of its kind.

Alumni Outcomes (25%)A university that values the careers of its graduates tends to produce successful alumni. Here, QS havesourced graduate alma maters from over 150 high-achievers lists, each measuring desirable outcomes ina parcular walk of life. In total, QS have analysed more than 39,000 of the world’s most innovave,creave, wealthy, entrepreneurial, and/or philanthropic individuals to establish which universies areproducing world-changing graduates. This is roughly 30% more records than in the previous edion. Ahigher weighng is applied to those individuals featured in lists focused on younger profiles. Likewise,undergraduate degrees have a higher weighng than post-graduate degrees, as it is assumed that theearly stages of the higher educaon learning process leave a deeper mark in terms of employability.

Partnerships with Employers per Faculty (25%)This indicator comprises two parts. First, it uses Elsevier’s Scopus database to establish whichuniversies are collaborang successfully with global companies to produce citable, transformaveresearch. Only disnct companies producing three or more collaborave papers in a five-year period(2012-2016) are included in the count. This year’s ranking accounts for university collaboraons with2,000 top global companies, as listed by Fortune and Forbes.Second, it considers work-placement related partnerships that are reported by instuons and validatedby the QS research team.Both figures are adjusted to account for the number of faculty at each university, and then combinedinto a composite index.

Employer - Student Connecons (10%)This indicator involves summing the number of disnct employers who are acvely present on auniversity’s campus, providing movated students with an opportunity to network, and acquireinformaon in a recent 12 month period. Employer presence also increases the opportunity of studentsachieving career-launching internships and research opportunies. This ‘acve presence’ may take theform of parcipang in careers fairs, organizing company presentaons, or any other self-promongacvies. This count is adjusted by the number of students, accounng for the size of each instuon.

Graduate Employment Rate (10%)This indicator is the simplest, but essenal for any understanding of how successful universies are atnurturing employability. It involves measuring the proporon of graduates (excluding those opng topursue further study or unavailable to work) in full or part me employment within 12 months ofgraduaon. To calculate the scores, we consider the difference between each instuon’s rate and theaverage in each country. To draw in outliers, the results are adjusted by the range between themaximum and minimum values recorded in each country or region. This accounts for the fact that auniversity’s ability to foster employability will be affected by the economic performance of the countryin which they are situated.


2019 EDITION SUMMARY

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CONSIDEREDINSTITUTIONS

660

RANKEDINSTITUTIONS

500

NEWENTRANTS

41

RANKED INLEBANON

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4861

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DIVERSITY & PENETRATIONEach bubble represents the disnct count of locaons covered.

2016 2017 2018 2019

301 302

598666

UNIVERSITIES EVALUATEDShaded area represents the number of instuons ranked.

PERFORMANCE OF THE TOP 1 INSTITUTION BY LOCATION

1-50

51-100

101-200

201-300

301-500

Graduate Employment Rate is thebest performing indicator for theinstuon with a score of

98.3/100

EmployerReputaon

Alumni Outcomes Employer -Student

Connecons

Partnerships withEmployers

GraduateEmployment Rate

98.3

51.9

69.0

84.1

61.8

SCORES BY INDICATOR

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (AUB)

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OVERALL RANK

Employer Reputaon

Alumni Outcomes




RANKS BY INDICATOR

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45

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RANK

71.4/100

SCORE

Lebanon


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Ranked at 45, American University of Beirut (AUB) isamong the top 9% in the 2019 QS Graduate Employability

Rankings.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (AUB) Ranked Instuonsin Lebanon 4

Best Rank in Countryor Region

Employer Reputaon

Alumni Outcomes




8845

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176

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Overall Score EmployerReputaon

Alumni Outcomes Employers -Student

Connecons

Partners withEmployers

GraduateEmployment Rate

72.4

43.049.9

58.8

43.4

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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT (AUB) - SCORE DIFFERENCE VERSUS MIDDLEEAST'S AVERAGE

The 0 level represents the average for None in each indicator.

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Employer Reputaon

Alumni Outcomes

Employer - StudentConnecons

Partnerships withEmployers

Graduate EmploymentRate

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SUBMITTED & COLLECTED DATAThis is the underlying data we used for rankings calculaons. These figures are directly provided by the instuons andtrusted official records or third pares, and verified by the QS Research Team. If you have any quesons, please contactus at [email protected]

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INTERNSHIP PARTNERSHIPS

Disnct Count

On Campus: 199

EMPLOYER-STUDENT CONNECTIONS

Disnct Count

93.0%

12 months aer graduaon

GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT RATE

Faculty Staff Students

8,5271,020

PERSONNEL DATA

The students and faculty staff data is extracted from the 2019 QSWorld University Rankings. All figures are full-me equivalent.

EXTERNALLY SOURCED DATA

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RESEARCH COLLABORATION WITH LEADINGCOMPANIES

The research collaboraon data used for therankings is provided by Scopus. Only disnctcompanies are counted.

The mapping includes those companies listed inthe Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 lists.

Five years of records are considered, comprisingthe 2012-2016 period for the 2019 rankings.Only those industrial collaboraons involvingthree or more papers over the enre period areincluded.

Alumni Listed Alumni Listed (weighted)

12.021

ALUMNI OUTCOMES

These counts are extracted from disnguished achievers lists published by presgious editors at globaland regional levels. QS ulised over 100 lists and mapped more than 50,000 records.

The counts are weighted to emphasise more recent alumni outcomes data, with higher weighngs appliedto records from youth lists and undergraduate degrees.

18.5%

81.5%

SENIORITY

Youth Lists Senior Lists

20.0%

80.0%

DEGREE TYPE

Undergraduate Postgraduate

Lebanon


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UNDERLYING RATIOSThe following charts present underlying raos and data for the instuon and the average recorded in its home country(or region if the number of domesc data points are insufficient). Please note that esmated figures are not included.

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23.3

This figure is directly provided by instuons or collected viapublicly available sources. We count all disnct companiespresent at events on campus or that used university-relatedwebsites to promote themselves in a recent 12 monthperiod.

This number is directly provided by instuons or collectedvia publicly avaible sources. We consider the number ofdisnct companies/ organisaons with acve partnershipagreements with each university to provide internships orwork-placement opportunies.

Employers Connecons per 1000 Students

Internship Partnerships per 100 Faculty Staff

Research Collaboraon with Leading Companies

This data is extracted from Scopus by Elsevier. We considerthe disnct count of companies publishing in collaboraonwith each instuon. A five year period (2012-2016) isconsidered and a minimum of three papers published incollaboraon is required.

Graduate Employment Rate (%)

This rate is directly provided by instuons or collected viapublicly available sources. We consider the proporon ofgraduates in full or part me employment within 12 monthsof graduaon. Whenever this figure was not available, weused the minimum recorded rate for the country or regionwhere the instuon is based.The submied rates are adjusted for rankings purposes if theyrefer to a meline different to 12 months.

INSTITUTION REGIONAL AVERAGE

71.7

33.8

93.0%

84.6%

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Lebanon


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Middle East

Middle East

Middle East

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EMPLOYER REPUTATION AND ALUMNI OUTCOMESThe following chart presents the results in the Employer Reputaon and Alumni Outcomes indicators, highlighng theinstuon's performance in the global context. The closer to the top-right area an university is the beer theperformance in both metrics.

Lebanon

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5.8

Alumni Outcome - Weighted Count

12.5

6.3

Employer Reputaon - Domesc Score

4.4

0.9

Employer Reputaon - Internaonal Score

INSTITUTION COUNTRY / REGION AVERAGE

21.0

10.3

Alumni Outcome - Natural Count

The charts below disclose the employer reputaon score (broken down by the internaonal and domesc components)and the number of records ulised for the Alumni Outcome for the instuon compared against the domesc averages.


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THE QS RANKINGS TEAM

Ben Sowter DirectorSelina Griffin Rankings Manager

Marn Juno Lead Analyst

Dennis Yu Rankings Analyst

Ting Qin Data Acquision Manager

Senior Research ExecuveIrene-Jay Shin

ResearchersAfaf AbouelelaAjita RaneAnuja ShenoyErika Landi

Gabriel da CostaRachel DingSamuel WongShilpa NarayankarToby Brock

Data AnalystTony Fregoli

PRESS & PRSimona Bizzozero Communicaons Director

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