Regional University Ranking Based on Career Outcomes Crowns Carnegie Mellon Online professional network LinkedIn (LI) has announced its first ever university rankings based on career outcomes across the USA, UK and Canada for specific programs. The results offer differentiation from the typical table toppers. Employment patterns of over 300 million…
Brazil University Completion Rates Fall for First Time in a Decade There was a 5.7 percent drop in the number of Brazilian graduates last year compared with 2012 – the first decline in the number of university leavers since 2003. Some 991,000 students graduated in…
Regional Globe’s Stock of Internationally Mobile Students Continues to Grow and Diversify The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual Education at a Glance report, detailing data on such topics as educational attainment, employment rates by level of education, funding for educational systems,…
Brazil For-Profit Colleges Find Warm Welcome The New York Times reports that for-profit colleges are finding a warm welcome in Brazil as the government tries to meet the demand for affordable higher education. From 2002 to 2012, the number of students attending college in Brazil…
Regional Chilean University Unseats Brazilian Incumbent at the Top of Regional Rankings Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), has overtaken Brazil’s Universidade de São Paulo to top this year’s QS University Rankings: Latin America. São Paulo drops to second after three years at the top. In this,…