Employability and Salaries for Top Universities Worldwide

This dashboard contains data from the "Global Graduate Skills & Employability Index". Its goal is to help potential future students and, potentially, their academic advisors investigate the types of educational programs they are interested in by providing location, university, and employment data in an accessible manner.

Original data can be accessed via this link to Kaggle.

Comparing two or more universities

  • Click on the university name in the table to display its employability and salary information.
  • To compare multiple universities at once, press Ctrl/Cmd + Click into the universities you want to select, or press Shift + Click and select a list of multiple institutions.
  • To deselect, press Ctrl/Cmd + Click into the universities you want to remove, or click Clear selected rows to reset your filter.

Clarifications and Limitations for this data set

  • It is based on the 2015 - 2025 cohorts from some of the top universities in the Bachelors, Masters and PhD levels.
  • The deafult comparison is with the global indicators for 2025.
  • The list is limited to 46 different universities.
  • A university may show up only on specific, non-consecutive years, based on their employability and salary rankings.
  • Top Industry is bounded by the Field of Study, as it only shows the most relevant one for all cases.
  • Baseline for comparison: Global Average of these top universities from 2021 to 2025.
Top Universities
Average Starting Salary (USD) for Top Industries by Field
Average Yearly Starting Salary (USD)
Side-by-side University comparison
Employment Rate (after 6 months)
Employment Rate (after 1 year)
Average Yearly Starting Salary

Graduate employability dashboard | Authors: Wesley Beard, Harrison Li, Hector Palafox Prieto, Apoorva Srivastava | Repository: https://github.com/UBC-MDS/DSCI-532_2026_12_GradSkills | Last updated: 2026-03-05

Graduate employability dashboard | Authors: Wesley Beard, Harrison Li, Hector Palafox Prieto, Apoorva Srivastava | Repository: https://github.com/UBC-MDS/DSCI-532_2026_12_GradSkills | Last updated: 2026-03-05