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An important challenge facing higher education institutions is authentically assuring graduate capabilities, including the assessment of 'softer skills'. Many institutions have developed procedures through curriculum reform and renewal processes, but too often these processes involve isolated approaches such as 'ticking the box', use of summary statistics and gap analysis which are both imprecise and piecemeal. Despite growing interest in assuring employable graduate capabilities, there has been little research into using a structured holistic approach engaging with multiple key stakeholders. This research proposes a decision support system adopting a multi-criteria decision approach (MCDA) to appraise whole of degree level outcomes and the robustness of assessment policy decisions. The objective is to authentically assure graduate capability by considering multiple key criteria to reduce arbitrariness of current approaches to assessment design. Multiple scenarios are presented to explain the application of MCDA in evaluating assessment benchmarks using simple to complex criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]