Trinity has risen in the QS graduate employability rankings, finishing in the bracket between 101 and 110, after the College placed between 111 and 120 last year.
It’s the second year in a row that Trinity has finished outside the top 100, after placing in the 71–80 bracket in 2017.
In a press statement, Orla Bannon, the Director of Careers, said: “Trinity students and graduates continue to be highly employable and successful in their chosen careers.”
“During their time at Trinity, they get the opportunity to develop key employability skills that allow them to succeed not just in their careers but in their future lives as individuals and members of society”, she said.
Vice-Provost Chris Morash said in a press statement that “a Trinity education enables our students to reach their full potential both inside and outside the classroom. We want our students to develop their skills and graduate attributes to succeed in their studies and in their careers”.
“They are therefore prepared for the ever-changing challenges of the 21st century workforce”, he said. “Today’s ranking is a testament to their hard work in achieving that.”
The QS employability rankings offer a global metric, rating 500 universities worldwide based on their ability to set students up for successful careers after their studies.
QS described Trinity as “Ireland’s premier university and … one of the world’s leading research-intensive universities”.
University College Dublin (UCD) was named Ireland’s top university for employability, coming 74th. It marks a climb of one place, after the university finished 75th last year.
UCD was the only Irish university to place in the top 100, with University of Limerick (UL), NUI Galway and University College Cork (UCC) finishing lower down the list.
The Irish Times reported this morning that the President of UCD, Prof Andrew Deeks, said that the university had invested “considerable resources to ensure our education curriculum includes transferable skills that our graduates take forward into their working careers”.
“Equally, I cannot overstate the enormous value for our students to be taught by academics with excellent research profiles”, Deeks said.
Deeks said UCD has “recently restructured our arts, humanities and social sciences degrees to extend this pathway into these subjects so that, where students wish, they can gain employment experience as part of their degree”.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) finished first in the rankings, after falling to fifth in 2018.
