Sometimes called graduate outcomes or graduate readiness. The honest measure goes beyond placement rate to include role relevance and time-to-job.
Graduate employability describes how effectively a graduating cohort competes in the entry-level labour market. The serious measures cover not just placement rate but role relevance (did graduates land in roles they actually trained for) and time-to-job (how long it took).
Universities and programmes report graduate employability metrics for accreditation, admissions marketing, and government reporting. The most useful measures for prospective students are role-specific and disaggregated — graduate employability for computer science majors at a particular institution is more predictive than the overall figure.
Graduate employability rises predictably for students who arrive at the first-job application with a portfolio of verifiable work. Ewance lets students build that portfolio inside the degree, not as an afterthought to it. Universities partnering with Ewance can show graduates landing in role-relevant first jobs faster than peers from non-partnered programmes.
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