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Top Graduate Employers

These tables have been compiled using data taken from the Annual Survey (2010-11) conducted by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). This asked all graduates to supply information about their employment status within six months of leaving university. The Complete University Guide tables include only full-time, first-degree leavers who entered full-time, paid graduate-level employment. Graduates in medicine, dentistry and nursing have been excluded. More detailed notes on the methodology of this study can be found here.

Rank Employer Sector Graduate-level posts
2011 2010
1 1 Boots Private Sector 550
2 3 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Private Sector 485
3 4 Deloitte Private Sector 445
4 2 National Health Service (NHS) NHS 420
5 7 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Private Sector 340
6 8 Ernst & Young Private Sector 330
7 5 KPMG Private Sector 310
8 10 Barclays Private Sector 265
9 6 Tesco Private Sector 260
10 9 Lloyds Banking Group Private Sector 220
11 12 Specsavers Private Sector 185
12 11 British Army Other Public Sector 170
12 44 Jaguar Land Rover Private Sector 170
14 14 Lloyds Pharmacy Private Sector 170
15 13 Accenture Private Sector 160
16 16 BAE Systems Private Sector 130
17 18 Rolls-Royce Private Sector 125
18 17 HSBC Private Sector 120
19 20 IBM Private Sector 120
20 15 Enterprise Private Sector 120
21 22 Marks & Spencer Private Sector 115
22 19 Sainsbury's Private Sector 100
23 34 Hays Private Sector 100
23 31 Teach First NGO/Charity/Religious organisation 100
25 28 Deutsche Bank Private Sector 100
25 20 JP Morgan Private Sector 100
27 23 Santander Private Sector 95
28 71 Atkins Private Sector 85
29 27 Citi Private Sector 80
30 26 Morgan Stanley Private Sector 80
31 25 Apple Private Sector 80
31 33 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Other Public Sector 80
31 51 UBS Private Sector 80
34 87 Sky Private Sector 75
35 61 Nationwide Private Sector 75
36 39 Grant Thornton Private Sector 75
37 44 John Lewis Partnership Private Sector 70
38 36 Asda Private Sector 70
38 40 Procter & Gamble Private Sector 70
40 37 Capita Private Sector 70
40 43 Ministry of Defence (MOD) Other Public Sector 70
42 89 Virgin Private Sector 65
43 44 Bank of America Private Sector 65
44 65 BP Private Sector 65
44 29 British Council Other Public Sector 65
46 24 Goldman Sachs Private Sector 65
47 37 Hewlett Packard Private Sector 60
48 53 Reed Private Sector 60
49 - Arup Private Sector 60
49 82 McDonald's Private Sector 60
51 - BT Private Sector 60
52 44 Debenhams Private Sector 60
53 53 BDO Private Sector 55
54 44 Co-operative (Co-Op) Private Sector 55
55 51 Michael Page Private Sector 55
56 94 FDM Private Sector 55
57 - Environment Agency Other Public Sector 50
57 59 Unilever Private Sector 50
59 53 Aviva Private Sector 50
59 73 Network Rail Private Sector 50
61 69 Arcadia Private Sector 50
62 - Majestic Wine Warehouses Private Sector 45
63 67 Abercrombie & Fitch Private Sector 45
63 82 Glasgow City Council Local Authority 45
65 - Airbus Private Sector 45
65 53 Morrisons Private Sector 45
67 30 Balfour Beatty Private Sector 45
67 - GlaxoSmithKline Private Sector 45
67 61 Vision Express Private Sector 45
70 - Thales Private Sector 45
71 50 Kent County Council Local Authority 40
71 94 Microsoft Private Sector 40
71 - Vodafone Private Sector 40
74 82 Credit Suisse Private Sector 40
74 41 Next Private Sector 40
76 - Aldi Private Sector 40
76 65 EDF Energy Private Sector 40
76 - Siemens AG Private Sector 40
76 - Towers Watson Private Sector 40
80 87 Optical Express Private Sector 40
81 78 Birmingham City Council Local Authority 40
81 57 General Electric Private Sector 40
81 61 Home Retail Group Private Sector 40
81 - Mott Macdonald Private Sector 40
85 - Physio World Private Sector 35
85 - RSM Tenon Private Sector 35
87 82 Bloomberg Private Sector 35
87 67 Explore Learning Private Sector 35
87 - Imperial College London Universities and Colleges 35
87 - London Probation Trust Other Public Sector 35
87 - Reckitt Benckiser Private Sector 35
87 - University of Cambridge Universities and Colleges 35
93 - AMEC Private Sector 35
93 42 Foxtons Private Sector 35
93 - MBDA Private Sector 35
96 61 Dyson Private Sector 35
96 - Laing O'Rourke Private Sector 35
96 - Logica Private Sector 35
96 - Nissan Private Sector 35
100 - Centrica Private Sector 30
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