Global Employability at a Glance
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Global Employment Trends
Tracking key structural shifts in the global labour market.
OECD Youth Unemployment
Youth unemployment rate (15-24 years)
Note: 2020 spike reflects COVID-19 impact.
Sources: OECD Employment Outlook 2025; Eurostat (une_rt_a)
Graduate Employment Rate
Recent graduates employment (1-3 years post-study)
Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2024
NEET Rate (15-29)
Youth Not in Employment, Education or Training
Sources: OECD Social Indicators; Eurostat (edat_lfse_20)
Skills Instability Projection
Share of core skills expected to change
Source: WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
The 5 Numbers That Matter Most
Key indicators defining the current structural shifts in global employment.
The Transition Gap
While overall graduate unemployment remains low (~4-5%), the reality for young people entering the workforce reveals a stark contrast. Youth unemployment sits around 7 percentage points higher than adult unemployment globally.
Global University Employability Rankings
A comprehensive ranking of institutions leading the world in employability, combining employer-based rankings (GEURS 2026) with academic performance data (EduRank 2026).
| Rank | University | Country | Region | EduRank Global | Employability Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA | North America | #8 | 100.0 |
| #2 | Stanford University | USA | North America | #2 | 98.4 |
| #3 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | USA | North America | #71 | 96.9 |
| #4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | Europe | #6 | 95.3 |
| #5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | Europe | #3 | 93.7 |
| #6 | University of California, Berkeley | USA | North America | #7 | 92.1 |
| #7 | Harvard University | USA | North America | #1 | 90.6 |
| #8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | Asia-Pacific | #75 | 89.0 |
| #9 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | Europe | #38 | 87.4 |
| #10 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Europe | #52 | 85.9 |
| #11 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | Asia-Pacific | #19 | 84.3 |
| #12 | Peking University | China | Asia-Pacific | #70 | 82.7 |
| #13 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | Europe | #85 | 81.1 |
| #14 | Princeton University | USA | North America | #26 | 79.6 |
| #15 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA | North America | #51 | 78.0 |
| #16 | Tsinghua University | China | Asia-Pacific | #60 | 76.4 |
| #17 | IE University | Spain | Europe | #1439 | 74.9 |
| #18 | Columbia University | USA | North America | #9 | 73.3 |
| #19 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | Europe | #154 | 71.7 |
| #20 | University of Toronto | Canada | North America | #14 | 70.1 |
| #21 | HEC Paris | France | Europe | #1220 | 68.6 |
| #22 | Yale University | USA | North America | #12 | 67.0 |
| #23 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | Asia-Pacific | #74 | 65.4 |
| #24 | CentraleSupélec – Paris-Saclay University | France | Europe | #1362 | 63.9 |
| #25 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | Asia-Pacific | #186 | 62.3 |
| #26 | École Polytechnique – Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France | Europe | #513 | 60.7 |
| #27 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | Europe | #119 | 59.1 |
| #28 | New York University (NYU) | USA | North America | #28 | 57.6 |
| #29 | University of Chicago | USA | North America | #20 | 56.0 |
| #30 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | India | Asia-Pacific | #554 | 54.4 |
| #31 | McGill University | Canada | North America | #35 | 52.9 |
| #32 | Duke University | USA | North America | #33 | 51.3 |
| #33 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | Asia-Pacific | #251 | 49.7 |
| #34 | Boston University | USA | North America | #34 | 48.1 |
| #35 | University of Navarra | Spain | Europe | #616 | 46.6 |
| #36 | University of British Columbia | Canada | North America | #36 | 45.0 |
| #37 | Arizona State University | USA | North America | #107 | 43.4 |
| #38 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | Oceania | #41 | 41.9 |
| #39 | Australian National University | Australia | Oceania | #92 | 40.3 |
| #40 | Kyoto University | Japan | Asia-Pacific | #50 | 38.7 |
| #41 | Fudan University | China | Asia-Pacific | #189 | 37.1 |
| #42 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Asia-Pacific | #105 | 35.6 |
| #43 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | India | Asia-Pacific | #456 | 34.0 |
| #44 | EM LYON Business School | France | Europe | #1645 | 32.4 |
| #45 | ESCP Business School | France | Europe | #1939 | 30.9 |
| #46 | Bocconi University | Italy | Europe | #846 | 29.3 |
| #47 | Université Paris-Saclay | France | Europe | — | 27.7 |
| #48 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA | North America | #72 | 26.1 |
| #49 | ESSEC Business School | France | Europe | #1416 | 24.6 |
| #50 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | Asia-Pacific | #30 | 23.0 |
| #51 | Mines Paris – PSL University | France | Europe | — | 21.4 |
| #52 | Johns Hopkins University | USA | North America | #11 | 19.9 |
| #53 | Dartmouth College | USA | North America | #53 | 18.3 |
| #54 | LMU Munich | Germany | Europe | #81 | 16.7 |
| #55 | Sorbonne University | France | Europe | #55 | 15.1 |
| #56 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | Europe | #56 | 13.6 |
| #57 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) | India | Asia-Pacific | #555 | 12.0 |
| #58 | The University of Sydney | Australia | Oceania | #58 | 10.4 |
| #59 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany | Europe | #224 | 8.9 |
| #60 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | Europe | #231 | 7.3 |
| #61 | EDHEC Business School | France | Europe | #1955 | 5.7 |
| #62 | KU Leuven | Belgium | Europe | #101 | 4.1 |
| #63 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | Latin America | #511 | 2.6 |
| #64 | University of Pennsylvania | USA | North America | #15 | 1.0 |
Sources: Global Employability University Ranking and Survey (GEURS) 2026, published by Emerging in partnership with Times Higher Education (employer votes from 12,000+ recruiters across 21 countries); EduRank.org 2026 Global University Rankings (research performance, non-academic prominence and alumni indicators across 14,131 universities in 183 countries).
Global MBA Rankings — Employment Outcomes (FT 2024)
Leading business schools worldwide ranked by post-graduation employment outcomes at 3 months, based on FT Global MBA Ranking 2024.
| Rank | Business School | Country | Region | Employed at 3 Months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Wharton (UPenn) | United States | North America | 92.3% |
| #2 | INSEAD | France/Singapore | Europe | 88.0% |
| #3 | Columbia Business School | United States | North America | 81.0% |
| #3 | SDA Bocconi | Italy | Europe | 79.0% |
| #5 | IESE Business School | Spain | Europe | 94.0% |
| #6 | Kellogg (Northwestern) | United States | North America | 95.0% |
| #6 | MIT Sloan | United States | North America | 86.9% |
| #8 | London Business School | United Kingdom | Europe | 90.0% |
| #9 | Cornell Johnson | United States | North America | 91.0% |
| #10 | Chicago Booth | United States | North America | 94.3% |
| #11 | Harvard Business School | United States | North America | 80.0% |
| #12 | HEC Paris | France | Europe | 91.0% |
| #12 | Tuck (Dartmouth) | United States | North America | 93.0% |
| #14 | Duke Fuqua | United States | North America | 92.0% |
| #15 | Yale SOM | United States | North America | 88.4% |
| #16 | Darden (UVA) | United States | North America | 94.5% |
| #17 | Esade | Spain | Europe | 91.0% |
| #18 | UCLA Anderson | United States | North America | 85.6% |
| #19 | Haas (UC Berkeley) | United States | North America | 88.7% |
| #20 | IE Business School | Spain | Europe | 90.0% |
| #21 | Stern (NYU) | United States | North America | 94.0% |
| #21 | CEIBS | China | Asia-Pacific | 93.8% |
| #23 | Stanford GSB | United States | North America | 82.0% |
| #24 | SUFE College of Business | China | Asia-Pacific | 90.0% |
| #25 | ESCP Business School | France | Europe | 88.0% |
| #26 | Oxford Saïd | United Kingdom | Europe | 70.0% |
| #27 | NUS Business School | Singapore | Asia-Pacific | 95.0% |
| #27 | Fudan University SOM | China | Asia-Pacific | 90.0% |
| #29 | Cambridge Judge | United Kingdom | Europe | 91.0% |
| #30 | Foster (U of Washington) | United States | North America | 88.0% |
| #31 | Indian School of Business | India | Asia-Pacific | 99.4% |
| #32 | Nanyang Business School (NTU) | Singapore | Asia-Pacific | 92.0% |
| #33 | USC Marshall | United States | North America | 85.0% |
| #33 | Carnegie Mellon Tepper | United States | North America | 88.0% |
| #35 | IMD | Switzerland | Europe | 71.0% |
| #36 | HKUST Business School | Hong Kong | Asia-Pacific | 82.7% |
| #37 | ESSEC Business School | France | Europe | 85.0% |
| #38 | Georgetown McDonough | United States | North America | 85.0% |
| #39 | IIM Ahmedabad | India | Asia-Pacific | 96.0% |
| #40 | Kenan-Flagler (UNC) | United States | North America | 88.0% |
| #41 | Peking University Guanghua | China | Asia-Pacific | 90.0% |
| #42 | Emory Goizueta | United States | North America | 87.0% |
| #43 | U of St Gallen | Switzerland | Europe | 85.0% |
| #44 | Rice Jones | United States | North America | 72.2% |
| #45 | Vanderbilt Owen | United States | North America | 90.0% |
| #46 | EDHEC Business School | France | Europe | 86.0% |
| #47 | IIM Bangalore | India | Asia-Pacific | 93.3% |
| #48 | Warwick Business School | United Kingdom | Europe | 81.0% |
| #49 | Georgia Tech Scheller | United States | North America | 96.0% |
| #49 | Mannheim Business School | Germany | Europe | 93.0% |
Source: Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2024; individual school employment reports (Class of 2023). Employment rate = percentage of graduates who accepted employment within 3 months of graduation.
"Global unemployment is stable —
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