In the category of "employability", Navarra, a private Catholic university, also ranks 71 among all universities around the world among employers. The ranking is based on a survey of 50,000 employers. Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where I worked for two years, ranks 6th in this global ranking. (MIT was first.)
Both UNAV and Tsinghua rank among the top 100 (51-100) in media and communications programs, where I teach. In Spain, UNAV ranks second, behind the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
QS has been doing these rankings since 2004. This year the rankings include 1,200 universites from 80 countries. The rankings are based on academic ranking, reputation among employers, number of students per professor, percentage of foreign professors, and percentage of international students. Seventy percent of the information for the ratings comes from research by QS or third parties and 30 percent from the universities themselves.
Having worked at UNAV for five years now, I can say that the administrators and professors all take seriously the notion that we are trying to "formar buena gente", which roughly means to develop our students into good citizens (literally translated, it means "to shape good people"). They live it and breathe it. QS doesn't actually measure that in the rankings, but the result shows up there.
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