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Malta currently has the highest employment rate of recent graduates in Europe at 94.5 per cent, according to research by The Knowledge Academy. 

This is followed by Germany (90.9 per cent) and the Netherlands (90.4 per cent). Slightly behind these three countries are the Czech Republic (89.9 per cent), Austria (89.4 per cent) and Sweden (88.3 per cent).

In the UK, recent graduates have an employment rate of 86.6 per cent. 

Let’s face it, we all want to be billionaires. While your choice of university or course might not directly influence your chances of becoming a billionaire, it certainly could help. 

An analysis of the top 250 billionaires from the latest Forbes Rich List explored where they went to university and the subjects that they studied. 

However, interestingly it found that of the 196 people that had attended university (or where there was public information of their alma mater) 17 of them were dropouts. 

New Zealand's University of Auckland has taken the first place position in the first ever Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings.

The University Impact Rankings were created to measure how universities are contributing to solve some of the biggest global challenges including gender inequality, climate action, education inequality and poverty. 

Loughborough University has the best student accommodation in the UK, according to reviews from thousands of students.

Reviews from 17,929 current students in the UK on StudentCrowd (a university reviews website) revealed the 20 universities that consistently provided the best quality accommodation.

North American universities dominate the list of the most innovative universities in the world, according to data collected by Clarivate Analytics in partnership with Reuters. 

The fourth annual ranking of the world’s most innovative universities shows that 48 North American universities feature among the top 100 – 46 from the USA and two from Canada. 

Harvard University have claimed the top three spots, respectively.

For the 16th year running, Harvard University has topped the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by consultancy ShanghaiRanking. 

The top three in the annual ranking remains unchanged from last year with California Institute of Technology (9th), and the University of Chicago (10th).

The top 10 is dominated by institutions in the US and UK. 

The University of St Andrews has moved up two places from last year to become the institution that UK university students are the most satisfied with, according to the 2018 National Student Survey. 

The Royal Veterinary College are in joint fourth place. 

Warwick, Norwich, Swansea, Bath and Keele are the five cheapest UK cities to study in according to new research by the credit report website TotallyMoney.

The free credit report and comparison specialists took the UK’s 50 top universities, according to The Sunday Times Good University Guide, and ranked them in order from most affordable to least.

ShanghaiRanking have released the results of their 2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, which shows the best performing universities across 54 different subjects. 

In total, more than 4,000 universities were ranked in five different fields: the natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences. This is the second year ShanghaiRanking have published the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, but the consultancy has been ranking international universities since 2003, and has ranked universities by academic fields since 2007. 

Spain, South Africa and Singapore have some of the cheapest weekly rates for student accommodation in the world, according to new research. 

Accommodation search engine Student.com found that the lowest rents for students around the world were in Albacete (Spain), Johannesburg (South Africa) and Singapore. In fact, four Spanish cities (Albacete, Murcia, Granada and Alcalá de Henares) are among the top 10 cheapest for weekly rents. 

Three US cities feature in the top 10 (Tallahassee, Athens GA and Columbia MO). Derby in the UK rounds out the top 10.