JGU joins 6 IITs, DU on list of top 500 world univs in ‘employability’

The O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), based in Sonipat, Haryana, has been ranked among the world’s top 500 universities in the prestigious QS Graduate Employability Rankings (GER) 2022 released on Thursday.

JGU’s overall ranking in the QS GER 2022 is 301-500. QS GER makes a global comparison of the employability outcomes of higher education institutions, making JGU one of the top institutions globally for creating robust and globally recognised career pathways for young people.

JGU is the only Indian university featured in these rankings that is purely focused on social sciences, arts and humanities. It is one of the only two private Indian universities on this list; the other being the nearly-six-decade old Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. JGU, established in 2009, is India’s youngest university on this list of 12 Indian institutions that have made it to the QS GER rankings this year. This includes six IITs, the University of Delhi, BITS Pilani, the University of Mumbai, Indian Institute of Science, and the University of Calcutta.

JGU has also received an impressive score of 86.9/100 in the Graduate Employment Rate, a key indicator considered for the rankings that involves measuring the proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study or those who have made themselves unavailable for work) in full or parttime employment within 12 months of graduation.

This places JGU among the top 71 global institutions of higher education in terms of graduate employment rate.