BANGALORE: According to an international survey conducted higher educational institutions, IIT-Kharagpur is the most employable institute in India, reports TOI.

IIT-Kharagpur along with IIT Bombay is also the only institute who has secured a position in the leading 100 employability rankings in the world.

Graduate Employability Rankings were released for the first by Quacquarelli Symonds which has placed these Indian institutes amongst the top 100. IIT-Kharagpur ranks 77 whereas IIT Bombay is at 93 on the list.

IIT Madras (rank 119), IIT Delhi (160) and University of Delhi (175) are amongst the other institutes to have found place on this survey.

The top 5 positions, much predictably, were secured by Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Yale University. 
As per the survey, IIT Kharagpur scored 51.0 which quite close to the scores of University of Liverpool (score 53), University of Lancaster (52.9) and Pennsylvania State University (52). 

Institutes were measured on the parameters of 'graduate employability rate' and 'employers' presence' on which IIT Kharagpur scored impressive rates. This institute has also bagged the greatest number of pre-placement offers among all IITs for the current academic session which accentuated its score on the survey. Taking all IITs into account, the Kharagpur campus also leads in the number of graduates and owns the highest average of job placements every year.

"The students of IIT Kgp are all talented. It is our interdisciplinary approach and the compulsory industrial internships that they go for which makes our students ready for their new jobs," said director P P Chakraborty.

44,000 responses from 1,239 universities were considered by Quacquarelli Symonds for its maiden project. The experts behind the project analyzed the universities on the basis of employer reputation, employers' presence on campus, alumni outcomes, partnerships with employers and graduate employment rate to reach to conclusions in the survey. They worked upon it for a year and the survey was finally released on November 26 at Young Universities Forum in Melbourne.

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