Abstract
Today it is becoming more demanding to measure and quantify activities and performance at universities. In this study, we focus on universities’ education activities and explore possible indexes mostly based on Daigaku Portraits, a database of basic information for national and public universities in Japan released in 2012. The results showed that the variables such as number of faculties or book circulation per student had positive correlations with their employment rate, while some other variables usually regarded as indexes of higher education negatively affected the employment rate. It is revealed that how to acquire the reliable data is important for measurement and assessment.
