The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2024-2025

Researching The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers

in 2nd place in both 2015 and 2016. Consulting firm Newton is another impressive climber, having jumped more than seventy places from 94th place in 2013 to being ranked in the top twenty for the first time in 2019. The Coronavirus pandemic had a very significant impact on the annual rankings, with a fifth of the employers that appeared in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers in 2020 – the final rankings before the onset of the pandemic – no longer ranked two years later.

Nokia, Maersk, the Home Office, Cable & Wireless, United Biscuits, Nationwide, Samsung, Mercedes, the Met Office and TikTok – have the dubious record of having only been ranked in the Top 100 once during the last twenty-six years. And former engineering & telecommunications company Marconi had the unusual distinction of being one of the highest-ever new entries, in 36th place in 2001, only to vanish from the list entirely the following year. One of the most spectacular ascendancies in the Top 100 has been the rise of Aldi, which joined the list in 65th place in 2002, rose to 3rd place in 2009 – helped in part by its memorable remuneration package for new recruits (currently £50,000 plus a fully-expensed VW electric car) – and was ranked

Teach First, the first of five inspirational schemes that are transforming society by bringing top graduates into public service, appeared as a new entry in 63rd place in 2003, before climbing the rankings every year for a decade and reaching Employers Ranked from 1999-2024 in the Top 100

MOST CONSISTENT EMPLOYERS

HIGHEST RANKING

LOWEST RANKING

PWC

1st (2004-2018, 2023-2024) 1st (2003, 2019-2022) 3rd (2006-2008, 2011-2012) 5th (2005-2007, 2024)

3rd (1999-2001, 2003, 2022)

CIVIL SERVICE

8th (2011) 11th (2024) 14th (1999) 20th (2001) 25th (1999) 29th (1999) 35th (2006) 42th (2021) 30th (2001) 49th (2015) 23rd (2008) 48th (2008) 46th (2022) 57th (2005) 39th (2022) 58th (1999) 45th (2003) 60th (2001) 59th (2000) 56th (2001) 53rd (2024) 53rd (2023)

KPMG

BBC GSK

10th (2017-2018) 6th (2021-2023)

22nd (2002-2003)

EY (FORMERLY ERNST & YOUNG)

GOLDMAN SACHS

5th (2001) 6th (2003) 9th (2024) 2nd (2022) 2nd (2013) 23rd (1999) 7th (2002)

HSBC

BARCLAYS

NHS

27th (1999, 2002)

UNILEVER

BAE SYSTEMS

DELOITTE

BP

14th (2003-2004)

CLIFFORD CHANCE McKINSEY & COMPANY

16th (2024)

45th (2007, 2012)

18th (2022-2023)

IBM

13th (2000)

ALLEN & OVERY

24th (2010, 2024) 4th (1999-2001) 21st (2004-2005) 7th (2024) 22nd (2024) 19th (2021) 12th (2024) 4th (2003) 15th (2019) 35th (2010) 30th (2008) 29th (2003) 23rd (2005) 14th (2000) 11th (2006) 9th (2000) 12th (2012) 1st (1999-2002) 19th (2022-2023)

PROCTER & GAMBLE

MICROSOFT J.P. MORGAN

ARUP

LINKLATERS

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP

ROLLS-ROYCE ROYAL NAVY BRITISH ARMY ACCENTURE

68th (2002) 88th (2013) 89th (2023) 85th (2018) 96th (2018) 89th (2024) 90th (2021) 96th (2023) 100th (1999) 98th (2016-2017)

CITI

L’ORÉAL

McDONALD’S

DEUTSCHE BANK

BT

SHELL MARS

Source High Fliers Research TESCO

18 TOP 100 GRADUATE EMPLOYERS

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