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However, in the context of the new era, universities still face some problems in the process of carrying out employment and entrepreneurship education, which hinder the progress of employment and entrepreneurship education. The probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets (PHFSs), as an extension of hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs), can more effectively and accurately describe uncertain or inconsistent information during the quality evaluation of college student employment and entrepreneurship education. TODIM and TOPSIS methods are two commonly used multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) methods, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages. The quality evaluation of college student employment and entrepreneurship education is regarded as the defined multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM). This paper proposes a novel method based on TODIM and TOPSIS to cope with multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems under PHFSs environment. After introducing the related theory of PHFSs and the traditional TODIM and TOPSIS methods, the novel method based on a combination of TODIM and TOPSIS methods is designed. And then, an illustrative example for quality evaluation of college student employment and entrepreneurship education proved the feasibility and validity of the proposed method. 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