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.
Region
Sector
Year
Overseas
| Rank | Employer | Sector | Graduate-level posts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2010 | |||
| 1 | 1 | British Council | Other Public Sector | 65 |
| 2 | 2 | Jet Programme | Private Sector | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | KPMG | Private Sector | 25 |
| 4 | 4 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) | Private Sector | 20 |
| 5 | 3 | Chatteris Educational Foundation | NGO/Charity/Religious organisation | 15 |
| 6 | 4 | Deloitte | Private Sector | 15 |
| 7 | 11 | Private Sector | 10 | |
| 8 | 4 | Abercrombie & Fitch | Private Sector | 10 |
| 8 | - | Deutsche Bank | Private Sector | 10 |
| 8 | 8 | TEFL | Private Sector | 10 |
| 11 | 9 | Ernst & Young | Private Sector | 10 |
| 12 | - | European Space Agency | Other Public Sector | 10 |
| 13 | - | Adidas | Private Sector | 5 |
| 13 | - | Airbus | Private Sector | 5 |
| 13 | - | Crystal | Private Sector | 5 |
| 13 | 11 | Schlumberger | Private Sector | 5 |
| 17 | - | Accenture | Private Sector | 5 |
| 17 | 19 | English First | Private Sector | 5 |
| 17 | - | Hewlett Packard | Private Sector | 5 |
| 17 | 14 | UBS | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | 14 | Disney | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | 19 | EDF Energy | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | English Programme in Korea | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | Interac | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | L'Oreal | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | 14 | Mark Warner | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | 14 | Procter & Gamble | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | Ski Total | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | Towers Watson | Private Sector | 5 |
| - | - | First Derivatives | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Atkins | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | JP Morgan | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | BMW | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | British Army | Other Public Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Oracle | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | McKinsey & Company | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | European Parliament | Other Public Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Esprit | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | 11 | HSBC | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Morgan Stanley | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Novartis | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Lego | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | GeoConsult | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | deVere | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Rio Tinto | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | H & M | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Ministry of Defence (MOD) | Other Public Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Johnson & Johnson | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Challenger Sports | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Wohanka, Obermaier & Kollegen | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | British Antarctic Survey | Other Public Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | SAP | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Betfred | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Unilever | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Siemens AG | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Puma | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | General Electric | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | YMCA | NGO/Charity/Religious organisation | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Toyota | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Capgemini | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Boston Consulting Group | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | CGGVeritas | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Zara | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Apple | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Arup | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Amazon | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Red Cross | NGO/Charity/Religious organisation | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Amnesty International | NGO/Charity/Religious organisation | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | TUI Travel | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | St George's School | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Subsea 7 | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | American Apparel | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Halliburton | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Microsoft | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Assystem | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Citi | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Decathlon | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | GlaxoSmithKline | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Michael Page | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Tag Worldwide | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Groupon | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Technip | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | University of Liverpool | Universities and Colleges | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Caterpillar | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Sodexo | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | McDonald's | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Syngenta | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | 3M | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | BNY Mellon | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Mercer | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | PA Consulting | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Jones Lang Lasalle | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Thales | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | AkzoNobel | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | ITV | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Marriott International | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Electronic Arts | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Paddy Power | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |
| - | - | Imperial Tobacco | Private Sector | Fewer than 5 |

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