Robert Gordon University The two universities also compete annually in the Granite City Challenge which sees teams across a range of sports compete to be the best in the city. The Robert Gordon University has 2 partner schools in Switzerland: In 2010, RGU gained international attention for awarding an honorary degree to controversial American businessman Donald Trump, whose mother was from Scotland. This featured in the 2012 documentary film "You've Been Trumped" which documented the progress of the construction of Trump's golf course near Aberdeen from the point of view of local residents. In the film Dr David Kennedy, former Principal of the
Robert Gordon University the 2012 award partly due to ratings of the quality of teaching and research, but also due to its employment record which was judged the best of any UK university. The citation read: ""With just 3.8% of graduates unemployed six months after leaving, a degree from the Robert Gordon University (RGU) is as near to a guarantee of a job after graduation as you can get...RGU's graduates don't just get jobs, they get good ones, with 84.9% securing jobs commensurate with their qualifications...with starting salaries at an impressive £20,897"". RGU was also named as Best Modern University in the UK