World Future Skills Index 2027

The global job market is facing disruption unlike any economic event since the industrial revolution. AI is set to fundamentally transform the global economy, human occupational and skills priorities and ultimately the role of higher education in supplying world-class talent into labour markets.

The QS World Future Skills Index 2027 shows that AI is not creating a uniform disruption. Instead, it is amplifying existing differences between economies. Those with strong alignment between higher education, workforce demand and economic strategy are pulling further ahead. Others are seeing skills gaps widen, even where overall investment remains high.

The United States sits at #1 in this year's Index with the leading Skills Alignment score, yet American employers still report critical gaps in the human skills necessary to maximise the gains from AI and graduate underemployment is rising. A strong supply of technical skills is no guarantee of demand for them.

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