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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.

Region

Year

Private Sector

Rank Employer Graduate-level posts
2011 2010
1 1 Boots 550
2 2 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 485
3 3 Deloitte 445
4 6 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) 340
5 7 Ernst & Young 330
6 4 KPMG 310
7 9 Barclays 265
8 5 Tesco 260
9 8 Lloyds Banking Group 220
10 10 Specsavers 185
11 - Jaguar Land Rover 170
12 12 Lloyds Pharmacy 170
13 11 Accenture 160
14 14 BAE Systems 130
15 16 Rolls-Royce 125
16 15 HSBC 120
17 18 IBM 120
18 13 Enterprise 120
19 20 Marks & Spencer 115
20 17 Sainsbury's 100
- - Hays 100
- - Deutsche Bank 100
- 18 JP Morgan 100
- - Santander 95
- - Atkins 85
- - Citi 80
- - Morgan Stanley 80
- - Apple 80
- - UBS 80
- - Sky 75
- - Nationwide 75
- - Grant Thornton 75
- - John Lewis Partnership 70
- - Asda 70
- - Procter & Gamble 70
- - Capita 70
- - Virgin 65
- - Bank of America 65
- - BP 65
- - Goldman Sachs 65
- - Hewlett Packard 60
- - Reed 60
- - Arup 60
- - McDonald's 60
- - BT 60
- - Debenhams 60
- - BDO 55
- - Co-operative (Co-Op) 55
- - Michael Page 55
- - FDM 55
- - Unilever 50
- - Aviva 50
- - Network Rail 50
- - Arcadia 50
- - Majestic Wine Warehouses 45
- - Abercrombie & Fitch 45
- - Airbus 45
- - Morrisons 45
- - Balfour Beatty 45
- - GlaxoSmithKline 45
- - Vision Express 45
- - Thales 45
- - Microsoft 40
- - Vodafone 40
- - Credit Suisse 40
- - Next 40
- - Aldi 40
- - EDF Energy 40
- - Siemens AG 40
- - Towers Watson 40
- - Optical Express 40
- - General Electric 40
- - Home Retail Group 40
- - Mott Macdonald 40
- - Physio World 35
- - RSM Tenon 35
- - Bloomberg 35
- - Explore Learning 35
- - Reckitt Benckiser 35
- - AMEC 35
- - Foxtons 35
- - MBDA 35
- - Dyson 35
- - Laing O'Rourke 35
- - Logica 35
- - Nissan 35
- - Centrica 30
- - Ford 30
- - Aon Hewitt 30
- - National Grid 30
- - Wood Group 30
- - Babcock 30
- - Jet Programme 25
- - Kier Group 25
- - American Express 25
- - Adecco 25
- - BNP Paribas 25
- - Kraft Foods 25
- - Schlumberger 25
- - Vinci Construction 25
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