THE ranking 2022: France with champions of employability

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The Times Higher Education (THE) has just released its new ranking of 250 higher education institutions focused on professional integration. France, Germany and China are part of the most represented countries in the ranking. Five French institutions are included in the Top 50 shortlist for the first time: Centrale Supélec, HEC, Polytechnique, EM Lyon business school and Mines ParisTech. In total, 18 French institutions are present in the ranking.

The Global University Employability Ranking is a global ranking of higher education institutions designed to take the employability of its graduates into account. The THE ranking is designed by the human resources consultancy Emerging and published every year since 2010 by the British newspaper to award institutions “producing the most employable graduates”. The ranking is based on a study to international recruiters and employers and designed using various criteria including the academic excellence of the institution, the skills of the student of the international scope of courses.

Professional experience integrated to studies

In 2022, 250 institutions in 44 countries form this ranking, all the more useful in the sense that, according to the THE, attending a training course in a school or university “is not limited to preparing a career, but to choose the right institution”, i.e. an institution that can “certainly improve the prospects of higher education”.

In some countries, says the THE, “are not easy to find jobs for graduates, but in European countries such as France, Switzerland and Germany, professional experience is included in the studies programmes”.

And “France, Germany and China are with the most represented countries in the ranking for employability, along with the United Kingdom and the United States”.

18 French institutions in the ranking

Schools of engineering and business schools are particularly well represented in the THE ranking, with a lower presence from universities.

In detail, five French institutions are included in the Top 50: Centrale Supélec (18the place), HEC (23th), Polytechnique (33th), emlyon business school (41th) and Mines Paris Tech (50th).

In total, 18 French institutions are present in the ranking and go up several positions in the ranking.

In the Top 100 come six additional institutions: Sorbonne Université (52the position), ESSEC Business School (55th), EDHEC (57th), Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL (59th), Université Paris-Saclay (68th) and ESCP Business School (70th).

From 100th to 250th position are seven additional French institutions: Arts et Métiers - ENSAM, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, Ecole des Ponts – ParisTech, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris), Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Skema Business School and Aix-Marseille Université (not ranked last year).